HOW TO SHORTEN WIRES || Servo wires, ESC Wires

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[EchoSx]

Hey Ryan you should do a video explaining how different weights of diff fluid affect driving and what’s ideal for different track conditions. Would be good to hear your opinion on it.

[warmup]

How come you have this amount of subs, that editing, shots and stuff seemed very professional, you deserve much more subs dude

[evhexrc]

This just emphasizes my reasoning when I see people’s messy wiring at the track when I say that they may want to clean it up a bit, and that I’d be happy to help them, when they say it’ll all be fine, then they chew up their wires and short out everything by getting their wires caught in their center diff/slipper assembly and things coming unsoldered because of bad joints within a minute of the first qualifying/practice lol.

[RCRoads]

Great video Ryan. Having the proper wire length is always a challenge. No soldering required on the JST plugs so the process is simple. Thanks for showing us how the pins are positioned and attached to not only the conductor but also the insulation. Always a good idea to tug on a crimped connection just to be sure it's good.👍👍

[howardanstedt]

In the example you show in you video the plug should only go around the wire but is also goes around some of the insulation. Like you say in the video one section of the plug should go around the insulation the other the wire. Just your example is not exactly right. The other is some of the crimp tools have click stops and you can insert the plug/connector into the tool and close it to the first click which slightly bends the plug like you did by hand and also holds the plug in place. Much easier if you have one of these. I use the "IWISS SN-28B Crimping Tool for AWG28-18 Dupont Pins" which costs about $25 on amazon. Thanks for all you videos Ryan, they are incredibly helpful for a beginner.

[HYEonDEATHROW]

Insulation

Thank you for this. I have known how to do this, but I gave up looking for the parts a long time ago. You instructions are very clear.

[zsk]

Thanks so much for this video. It gave my big, dumb, shaky hands the confidence to give it a shot and clean up my builds.

[CraigFleek]

Ryan, love your videos! This is something I have done myself and agree, those parts are small. Tricky when you have big hands. One thing to note. When crimping the ends on pay attention to how the ends match up with one another. You don't want to have to twist one wire 180 degrees to make it align properly. Follow the natural path of the wire. I think one thing you might have been able to show a bit more of is the crimping part. Show which direction the part you're crimping fits in the tool. When I first started I kept placing them in the tool upside down.

[friktionrc]

Thanks for this...about to embark on this modification as I’ve recently started Club racing just before COVID hit...and my wires look like that spaghetti out of that ‘Lady and the Tramp’ cartoon 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ ...wish me luck lol

[polakis]

A huge bravo for the explanation level. You are very detailed and helpful when showing a process. And a tip from my experience. Always leave enough wire left because some times if anything goes wrong and you need to strip more of that wire you to catch you should have some room for error. And as i always recommend people, measure twice or more and cut once :)

[CarlRCTips]

46th, and I really don't care!!! 😜😂😂😂
From what I remember about most JST Plugs, the only critical one would be the ESC to Receiver.... Get those mixed up, and the better possibility is, you'll fry the Receiver. I've HEARD (and we all know how that goes!), that most ESCs have Circuit protection, where it just won't work if wired incorrectly. I wouldn't bet my expensive Electronics on it though!! I'm just glad I still run Red, White and Black Wires...
Excellent Video again, Ryan!! 👍👍🍻🍺😎
Carmine 💥 ⛽

[Borrdrc]

always a great day when i see another video uploaded by you Ryan. thanks for the great content.

[Jongiblets]

Another method to shorten wires of you don't have a crimping tool and your comfortable with a soldering iron: pull open you servo and desolder the wires, cut said wires to the appropriate length, then solder back in place and put the servo back together. This is how I've always done it since I don't have the crimping tool.

[ScottzillaRC]

Great video and awesome tips once again. I had to do a wire replacement like that once before. It definitely takes time and patience.

[ravynx]

Hey Ryan, great explanation. I know it's approaching 3 years on this video and you've probably addressed this by now but I noticed the crimp at 8:00 is still slightly off compared to the terminal you pulled out at 6:08. Note that you don't want the shielding within the inner-crimp as that's only supposed to make contact with the wire. :) Keep up the great content, I recently found your channel and got my first hobby-grade RC last week.

[stevenwheat]

I do this by leaving the plug on the end and soldering the shorter wire straight to the board in the esc and servo but i can solder very well.

[monchitoscalecrawling]

Super nice man. Thanks for the upload. I only have crawlers but wiring is wiring no matter what kind of rc.
Greetings from Guatemala

[cyprusdaedalus]

I'm OCD and always wanted to know how to do this so i could fix the only not clean part of my installs. Thanks for this video!

[RcOffroad]

I see you have wireless receiver... however I was trying figure a way to do my receiver antena? I wrapped the antena wire around itself, and put heat shrink around all of it. I then servo taped it to the top of the my servo, by the receiver. (serpent srx2 mh) It looks clean and will work well I believe! Thanks Ryan! You should try Highest brand servos, I use a Highest DS 700, it is pretty good, .06 transit time @7.4v!

[GSracing]

Awesome video 👍🏻 always wondered how to clean up my car and now I know! I’m defiantly going to be doing this to my cars from now on.