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XT60 toothpick hack
#1
For those of you who experience the XT60 plug falls out once in a while (especially hardmounted from my experience) can solve this by taking a piece of a wooden toothpick or similar and push it in between the connectors (arrows in the picture)

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#2
I use a small watchmakers phillips head screwdriver on mine. Big Grin
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#3
I mean just stick it in and keep them there. This way the connectors will not bend back
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#4
(24-Aug-2016, 02:27 PM)oyvinla Wrote: I mean just stick it in and keep them there. This way the connectors will not bend back

ohhh..good tip, never thought of that..  High 5's
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#5
Best tip ever Big Grin
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#6
Oh NOW you tell me. My quad dropped from 30 feet up because I lost battery power. XD Great tip!
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#7
(24-Aug-2016, 09:54 PM)Xtopher98 Wrote: Oh NOW you tell me. My quad dropped from 30 feet up because I lost battery power. XD Great tip!

That was my intention! muhuhahahah! My evil masterplan worked out! (where is the devil smiley? Negative angel must be kind of the same - Angel )


Unfortunately I came to think about it after your crash
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#8
(25-Aug-2016, 07:36 AM)oyvinla Wrote: That was my intention! muhuhahahah! My evil masterplan worked out! (where is the devil smiley? Negative angel must be kind of the same - Angel )


Unfortunately I came to think about it after your crash
Heh its no problem. Though now I have to wait for Banggood to restock the arms cause they were on back order  Dodgy
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#9
(25-Aug-2016, 06:56 PM)Xtopher98 Wrote: Heh its no problem. Though now I have to wait for Banggood to restock the arms cause they were on back order  Dodgy

Good Luck with that........
"Damn the torpedoes!!!  Full speed ahead!!!"
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#10
Word of wisdom: always keep a spare... Of everything all the time.

Build a spare part quad Tongue
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#11
I had no idea that was why my XT60s were loose. Last week I had to hunt through 5 foot tall grass in a field because a flip caused the battery to unplug from gravity. I thought the plastic must have stretched or something.
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#12
(25-Aug-2016, 07:12 PM)oyvinla Wrote: Word of wisdom: always keep a spare... Of everything all the time.

Build a spare part quad Tongue

If I didn't spend all my money on the first one I would have spare everything. But I did and I don't so yay for me. I did buy four extra arms so that should help the next time it breaks.
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#13
I too use biggles method, although once they're past a few + tweaks they can break, ask sigloss Wink
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#14
Brilliant, I love these types of solutions - so brutally practical Smile Most of my fleet now has toothpicks in their XT60 connectors - batteries connect securely and snugly now.
My humble addition - the toothpick goes a long way if you keep sharpening the ends with an x-acto knife after every cut.
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#15
Strange, I pushed a toothpick in my XT60 and I could not fit the battery plug in. Maybe Hungarian toothpicks are bigger Big Grin
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