<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">I just use a piece of Romex wire. Cheap, and available at all hardware stores. <img src="http://mail.yimg.com/a/i/mesg/tsmileys2/09.gif"><br><br>Seriously, I use a dean's ultra with great success. I have replaced it many times though as I am the worlds worst at losing them. I usually go to the field with 3 and come home with 2. <img src="http://mail.yimg.com/a/i/mesg/tsmileys2/04.gif"><br><br><div><strong><em><font color="#0000bf" face="comic sans ms" size="3">Chris </font></em></strong></div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <div> </div><br><br>--- On <b>Mon, 2/9/09, James Oddino <i><joddino@socal.rr.com></i></b> wrote:<br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;">From: James Oddino <joddino@socal.rr.com><br>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Arming Plug/Receptacle Problem<br>To:
"General pattern discussion" <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><br>Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 9:55 AM<br><br><pre>Put a 100 ohm resistor across the arming plug receptacle. Then the capacitors<br>in the ESC will charge without a spark as you connect the batteries. When you<br>connect the arming plug, no spark.<br><br>Jim<br><br><br>On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:08 AM, Ron Van Putte wrote:<br><br>> I have a problem which I am sure many other E-powered airplane owners have<br>that I'd like to solve. I use an arming plug to connect the two 5S Lipo<br>packs to the ESC. On initial contact of the arming plug with the receptacle,<br>there's a big spark thrown. Eventually the contacts on the arming plug and<br>receptacle get burned to the point where the electrical contact is very bad. <br>Yesterday I had to land my airplane deadstick because (I think) the ESC saw what<br>it thought was low voltage out of the battery that was actually due to
the<br>burned arming plug/receptacle contacts. BTW, I am using high-amp Anderson Power<br>Pole connectors, which are probably more susceptible to having the contacts<br>burned than would Deans Ultra connectors.<br>> <br>> I have thought about putting a BIG capacitor in parallel with the arming<br>plug, that would damp the initial current surge which causes the spark. The<br>capacitor could be removed before flight. However, I'm wondering if<br>there's a more elegant solution.<br>> <br>> Ron Van Putte<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>> NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<br>> http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>NSRCA-discussion mailing list<br>NSRCA-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<br>http://lists.nsrca.org/mailman/listinfo/nsrca-discussion<br></pre></blockquote></td></tr></table><br>