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Re: Looking for a connector
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Originally Posted by squirrel View Post
The motor wires are 14 gage, aren't they? yet teams have been "getting away" with using the PowerPole connectors for them for years. I haven't heard of any of them melting.

Most ratings are very conservative for what we're doing, what with the very short life expectancy we require of a competition robot.
on our 2009 bot we melted the Anderson powerpoles on our intake roller it got jammed and the powerpoles melted and dripped down our frame

i would definitely recommend deans convectors they are much better
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