K4SWB
02-12-2007, 03:48 PM
Dear RC Manufacturers,
We were there when you introduced the Frog and the Grasshopper. We were there when a 1500 mAh nicd was a large capacity battery. We were there when you were lucky to get 5 minutes runtime on your RC stuff.
Who are we? We are those Tamiya style white connectors and the frustrated RCers who have been stuck with them since you decided they would be the “standard.”
As an RCer I hate to badmouth something that has been around as long as those white connectors but it’s time for them to retire. They were never all that good at their job any way.
In this era of 3300mAh batteries being on the small end and 15+ minutes being the norm for runtimes we need you manufacturers to give us something better. Surely you can put WS Deans Ultra connectors on your products. The least you could do would be to offer your products without the white plug and include one of those red ones so we could install them ourselves. I just spent numerous hours cutting off those white plugs and installing the red plugs on all my new stuff. Is this really fair to us, your buyers?
So if any of you RC manufacturers actually read in these forums, (and it would really pay you to) give us a break. Stop using something that everyone that stays in the hobby for over a week knows has to be replaced before it goes bad. And go bad it will. Read the things that are written to improve your products. The absolute first modification for every hobby grade electric product is to replace the Tamiya style connectors with WS Deans or the equivalent.
We will appreciate it!
Sincerely, your buying public.
We were there when you introduced the Frog and the Grasshopper. We were there when a 1500 mAh nicd was a large capacity battery. We were there when you were lucky to get 5 minutes runtime on your RC stuff.
Who are we? We are those Tamiya style white connectors and the frustrated RCers who have been stuck with them since you decided they would be the “standard.”
As an RCer I hate to badmouth something that has been around as long as those white connectors but it’s time for them to retire. They were never all that good at their job any way.
In this era of 3300mAh batteries being on the small end and 15+ minutes being the norm for runtimes we need you manufacturers to give us something better. Surely you can put WS Deans Ultra connectors on your products. The least you could do would be to offer your products without the white plug and include one of those red ones so we could install them ourselves. I just spent numerous hours cutting off those white plugs and installing the red plugs on all my new stuff. Is this really fair to us, your buyers?
So if any of you RC manufacturers actually read in these forums, (and it would really pay you to) give us a break. Stop using something that everyone that stays in the hobby for over a week knows has to be replaced before it goes bad. And go bad it will. Read the things that are written to improve your products. The absolute first modification for every hobby grade electric product is to replace the Tamiya style connectors with WS Deans or the equivalent.
We will appreciate it!
Sincerely, your buying public.