hehe, you would despair if you knew what sort of people exist out there. Namely, people like me
Here’s a summary of my first bullet connector soldering work:
Deliberating briefly on the purpose of the side holes, then shrugging my shoulders and confidently routing the wires through them
Putting just a little blob of solder as you would on electronics
Burning my fingers while holding the connector and trying to shove the tip of the iron in its cavity in quick bursts, to make that damn blob bond with it before it became too hot. Multiple times.
Deciding that I better use long-nose pliers to hold it, still doing finger acrobatics to manoeuvre the iron and solder wire with one hand
Then burning my thighs and neighbouring areas, dropping the burning bullet on them. Multiple times.
Dancing in agony every time to exorcise the flaming demon from my flesh -and then rushing to find and pick it up before it burned a hole in the carpet
Patting myself in the back proudly when 1 hour later the shrink sleeves seemed to hold the bulging monstrosities tightly
Wondering whether they were supposed to be looking like that and shrugging my shoulders again 2 seconds later
Shorting two of the wires when they broke loose a couple of miles later
Vowing to never solder bullet connectors again
Watching a 40 second video in youtube to see how come not everybody complains about these cursed things
Slapping my head hard. Multiple times.
Lying in fetal position with my head under the pillow, consoling myself that at least nobody knew what I had done.
10 years ago, my brother would drop tiny semi-molten blobs of solder off of the tip of a AA battery operated soldering gun 6 inches above wire resting on a battery spring contact.
Somehow he actually made a few work.
Needless to say, I had to become the solderer, and I did 6 hours of quality soldering last night with one hand and two fingers from the other… Clamps and jigging is everything…
Although nowadays at least I am able to solder connectors without burning my balls, a lot of this info and gear can definitely make the job easier, thanks
i mean its not crazy as hobby brushless can have 6 wires broken out to allow delta / wye or 6 phase control, But this is not supported my most hobby ESC’s.
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