For what it's worth, the Deans connectors are much easier to manage than a Traxxas one. Performance advantages are non existent, as he stated.. But the Traxxas connectors must have the pins pushed in the plastic after soldering and pushed out for repair or replacement. Also, your soldering for the Traxxas connectors must be small, clean, top notch solders or you'll have trouble getting the pins into the connector. Just throwing the info on here for you.. I use deans simply because everyone else does, and they're easy to repair/solder up. I used Traxxas in the past and I prefer Deans.