Originally Posted by
IOP_Racer
I have a question for you all. I just soldered all new wire onto my ESC, and decided to put heat shrink tubing over the wires and posts for extra protection. After doing so however, I started to wonder if the heat shrink tubing would act as thermal insulation on the posts. If this is the case I feel that the posts would flow more heat to the board potentially burning it up. I admittedly never paid much attention to how hot the posts get throughout a run, so maybe this isn't a problem at all. Anyone have any experience with heat shrinking the posts?
area and heat transfer....
the little area of the heat shrink has near zero affect...
the heat will travel along the wire if needed for more cooling... all the way to the battery if the ISSUE is that bad.
my opinion.. electric rc racing since 1991. most scales, most types.