The PopularAirsoft portal has joined a campaign (!) aiming at persuading manufacturers of the airsoft industry to abandon the use of the Tamiya (and mini Tamiya) plugs and replace them with the Dean-T (T-connector) plugs. As part of the initiative, we they even managed to create a T-type plug dedicated to airsoft (!). What's more - they even managed to find a manufacturer who promised to deliver any ordered number of plugs (!)  and delay the required payment until the end of the current year, and in subsequent years raise the price by only by 3% to cover inflation (!). That's great! The benefactor is Titan - an American manufacturer of lithium-ion cells and packets.

Here: LINK  to the connector's website. Here: LINK a link to the PopularAirsoft campaign. And there is a video describing the initiative:

Of course, you can not question the useful advantages of plugins that allow for the safe flow of current with a higher intensity and other than Tamiya's design, but:

for example, the XT60 connector:allows the flow of current of 50 A (temporarily up to 65 A) in addition to shielding the connection, while the not airsoft specific one, but generally available Dean-T allows the flow of current of 30 A (temporarily up to 50 A):

And, for example, the  Gold 3.5 mm connector:

allows for a continuous current of 50 A  and temporary current of 85 A. In addition, the plugs are small and allow the wires to be routed through tight spaces where a bigger plug will simply not fit.

Currently Airsoft Systems, Modify, Redwolf and Polish Perun have joined the action.

We are not convinced by this type and form of standardization. In out opinion, a much more sensible thing to do would be to convince the airsoft community to stop classifying replicas according to the muzzle velocity (fps) and replace it with the classification according to kinetic energy. We have already published extensive material on this subject. We encourage you to rethink the matter: LINK.

The photos come from the www.classicvacations.com website and show the beach on the Lanai island in the Hawai.

Photos and connector specifications were taken from the Modelarnia.pl website.