To each his own I guess. Soldering has its associated dangers and limitations; there are good places to solder (wires together) and not so good applications; a good crimped connection is superior to a soldered one. Why else would the industry support it world wide? Bad question I suppose, but it is true. Strain relief built in, and less danger of a hard transition from wire to solder filled wire, easily broken. Especially true in power planes where vibration is an issue.
Generally a longer servo lead gives me the option of lopping it off and hard soldering the wires together, then using the end in the fuselage to plug into the rx. I hard wire all my wing servos and eliminate any connector. JD Endless Mountain Models http://www.scalesoaring.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Johns [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 11:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [RCSE] "VMS" connectors > > At 10:08 AM 2/9/2005, you wrote: > >As originally posted by Gordy concerning the Volz servos > > > >". tiny VMS connector system." > > --snip-- > > All this chatter about VMS connectors prompts me to throw in my > 2-bits. Volz taught me a valuable lesson. Having a connector right next > to the servo is a wise thing to do. Alas, the Volz connectors are soooo > small for my tired old eyes and feeble fingers that I have a hard time > using them. Alas, I also use JR 368's in most everything and JR hasn't > figured that out yet, so I make my own "micro-connector" set-up. > RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
