Originally Posted by
Briguy
I wouldn`t put thinner wires on it . The battery manufacture put 10 guage wire on there for a reason , to handle the amp draw . Going thinner will cause the wire to heat up faster and most likely not but possibly burn the wires and short the battery . I`d return it or sell it .
Well, the Mamba Max ESC uses 13 AWG wires to connect to the battery, as far as I know.
Also, even the most high quality packs like TrakPower 4900 or Team Orion stuff use 12-13 AWG wires from what I can see. I really doubt this 4300 mAh 20C discharge battery *REALLY* needs 10 AWG. I'd bet the main reason they used is to make it *seem* like a pack that's capable of higher discharging... So 10 AWG is probably overkill. 12-13 would likely be more appropriate.
The 3000 mAh 20C Zippy-K pack uses 10 AWG too. There's just no way it absolutely needs that much, when even the 30C packs use thinner wires.
I'm just guessing though, and I wouldn't mess with wires unless I was 100% sure of what I was doing.