How to make a Traxxas TRX4M battery adapter
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- how to make a Traxxas TRX4m battery adapter
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Your solution here is a low cost, non destructive way to solve a problem many of us want to solve. Great work!
Thank you I'm glad it helped
That’s a great idea! No matter how “safe” traxxas makes their system we will find a way around them!
Lmao 🤣
Thank you sir!!! I just did mine!! I will make a simple TRX to balance cable as well, to be able to see the voltage on the field. Again, great video!!!!!
That's good. Thank you I'm glad it helped you out
Its best to use the male connector end on the ST-60 connector when soldering wires onto them. It keeps the terminals from melting into the plastic and keeps them aligned and works as a heat sink. The risk of the terminal becoming misaligned is greater without the other connector. Simple.
Thats a good idea I've had to toss out connectors I've messed up before thanks 👍
Thanks for the information. Had more fun making my own. 😊
No problem I'm glad I was able to help
Great work and great how to!
Followed your instructions and my adapter is working fine.
Thx man
Awesome thank you. I'm glad it worked for you.
Thank you for sharing this. It was a great help! Saved me a great amount of time and money!
I'm glad this helped thanks
Great video and a really useful guide for TRX4M owners! Thanks for making it and hello from the UK.
👋 Hello.
Thank you I'm glad it was able to help.
Nice video! Tip: You can stretch heat shrink a little with needle nose pliers so that it will fit over the plugs.
Thank you I've done that before but I don't think this piece would stretch enough for that connector but thank you for the tip.
Awesome video! Great way to do things until you are ready to swap electronics.
Thank you
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I was making up my mind about how to make such an adapter when I saw your video. Great work, I am going to make one just like that. Thanks a lot!
Thank you I'm glad I was able to help you out
You made this look simple I'm very impressed I'm definitely doing this I just bought a trx4M yesterday and was concerned about storage charging
Thank you it's very easy to do as long as you know how to solder it's not hard at all. It was definitely worth it. I was wanting it so I can put it back to storage charge too.
Thank you very much for your video it helped me a lot I have now done it just like you and it worked I am currently already charging the lipo everything is super great keep up the good work. 😀👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
That's awesome I'm glad it helped you out
Excellent! Thanks for the video.
Thans, just made my own using your video.
Awesome I'm glad I was able to help.
Thank you for making this video. Very handy.
No problem I'm hoping it helps some people out. Until someone make a legit adapter. Thanks.
I made separate adapter as i dont like to cut original charger but for somebody who dont have way to make adapter there its other solution for storage charge. If you have original pro light kit and lights goes off due to lower voltage cut off then cells are exactly 3.8V tried few times. That's work only with pro light kit any other LED will be still on like bumper lights or other accessory lights.
That's good to know about the light kit.
I couldn't find connectors for these batteries at the time not sure if and sells them now, but this was the best solution I could come up with. For me I didn't care about cutting the charger.
This is a great mod. $6 bucks for the extension. Ebay is $15. Thanks.
I'm glad this helped you out
Pretty darn cool thanks bro 😎🥃
Made my own copy! This video was just what i meeded 🤑🤩
Thanks a lot for this video, just ordered the jst connectors and will do that, thanks a LOT
Ok great thank you so much 👍
Thanks for sharing!
Thank you 👍🏻
Sweet man thanks for sharing, I am definitely gonna give this a shot
Im glad this helped you out thanks for watching👍
Thank you
I made an adapterplug for the esc via the battery connector. You can connect the balance port (male) on the esc via 1 cable. Cut both power cables off. Then add the new connector (i used JST male because i had a couple of JST batteries lying around). And add the new connector (jst female) and the balance port plug (jst xh female) to the battery. This time add all the wires of the balance port plug. That way your battery can be charged normally. And with the cable for the esc you can use any battery. It's the same, but different, but still the same!
Nice ya that works too.
@@OverBudgetRCi couldn't have figured it out without your video, so, thanks!
@Bennie98 that's great I'm I was able to help you out
thank you!awesome
My question is what is the storage charge voltage ment to be is it like the other lipo batteries 3.8v per cell
Please
Sorry I was in the desert no reception. Yes I keep all of my lipos at 3.8v per cell. If you do that they should last a lot longer
OK thank you very much 😊
Traxxas should have had something like this at the same time as the truck release.
Yes they should have it would probably be an id connector but at least there are adapters for those
for force, but... the policy...pity
If someone would sell these on eBay I’d ship on to the uk
You would think one could be able to sue Traxxas for not giving you an option to storage charge their 2S TRX-4M Lipos with their proprietary charger or use an ISO standard connector so you could use existing hobbyist hardware. What is unsafe is your house burning down because the internal resistance is purposely and negligently ignored by Traxxas and the basic user has no idea how volatile unsafe storage of LIPO batteries can be and then blame it on user error during the charging phase. its dirty and gross. I'm just happy I have the capacity to chop them connectors off and use my own.