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Electronics => Electronics => Topic started by: swabygw on November 28, 2010, 03:44:23 PM
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I just got a 11.1v (4350 mAh), 3-cell Thunder Power RC LiPo battery and the LiPro Balance Charger. The battery came with just bare wire leads and the charger looks like it requires a female T-dean connection. The charger came with four female T-dean adapters (to banana clips, pins, etc.), but nothing to connect to the bare leads from the battery. So, three questions:
1) Is there a way to attach a female T-dean connection to the battery without soldering (my soldering equipment/skills are not good, but my crimping equipment/skills are good)?
2) Also, who sells the female T-dean harness that's needed?
3) The Serializer controller I want to attach the battery to requires bare leads. If a T-dean connector is attached to the battery wire leads, how can I, then, connect the bare wire leads into the controller?
Thanks, in advance, for advice to newbie. Cheers!
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Hi,
If you don't like Deans, then just use something else - lots of crimp types out there.
You could add short pieces of wire with crimped connectors for connecting to the controller (which will need soldering btw).
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Thanks for the suggestion for using crimped connectors to connect to the controller - I hadn't thought of that. But, the real problem is how to connect to the charger which accepts only a T-Dean connection (without having to solder, hopefully), too. Here's the charger:
http://www.trossenrobotics.com/store/p/6431-LiPo-Balance-Charger-Starter-Kit.aspx (http://www.trossenrobotics.com/store/p/6431-LiPo-Balance-Charger-Starter-Kit.aspx)
It only takes a T-Dean connection. Is there a way to attach a T-Dean to bare leads without soldering (e.g., crimping, or something else)? And, then, the corresponding challenge is....if the T-Dean is attached, I suppose it'll have to be removed to attach to the controller, right? I'm thinking there must be a way to be able to attach the battery to both the controller and/or battery without having to change connectors each time.
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I thought of one solution, but not sure if it's a good one: Wire an opposite gender T-Dean connectors to the controller card. Not sure if that's a good solution, though...
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Hi,
But, the real problem is how to connect to the charger which accepts only a T-Dean connection (without having to solder, hopefully), too.
Well I failed to communicate it perhaps, but I meant "Cut the connector on the charge and replace it with your favorite crimp type (that can handle the current).
Is there a way to attach a T-Dean to bare leads without soldering (e.g., crimping, or something else)?
Not that I know of, hence the cut and crimp suggestion.
But if you cannot solder at all, what do you do when you have to connect the controller?
I'm thinking there must be a way to be able to attach the battery to both the controller and/or battery without having to change connectors each time.
Sure, if you're up for soldering a circuit together to keep your controller safe while charging ;D
Seriously, you're in the wrong hobby to not be able to solder, so I'd recommend that you practice on some discarded PCB's (open a junked piece of electronics and rip out the PCB(s) and what else you might find usefull).
First off, you need to check what transients may appear when connecting and disconnecting the charger and while starting and stopping charging - with an oscilloscope, to see if anything goes to voltages that will kill your controller.
Without that check, at least use a switch to isolate the controller when charging the battery.