How to - Soldering battery connector - eluminerRC
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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This is a quick how to video on how to properly and safely change a connector on a LiPo battery. Since I've decided to go with "T-plug" style (a.k.a. Deans) connectors, I have to change XT60 connectors on my LiPo batteries.
This process is not very hard, but it could be very dangerous. LiPo batteries contains large amount of energy (for it size) and short-circuiting them will transform all this energy into heat/fire.
WARNINGS:
Two thing could go wrong while doing this.
1. First and the most dangerous is to connect positive and negative wires together creating short circuit. So, make sure that at least one of the wires is properly isolated and protected at all times. Never create situation where you have both wires exposed and never think that you can be careful enough and keep them separated. They will come together, thrust me. :)
2. Second is a lot less probable, and that is overheating you battery while soldering. Overheating battery cells will damage them and you could do this if you keep your soldering iron on the wires to long. So, do your soldering job as quickly as possible.
Tips:
1. Clean any soldering paste residue after soldering. Soldering paste is corrosive and could damage solder joints.
2. While soldering, keep male and female connectors connected together. That way you will increase heat dissipation so it will be much harder to melt the connector. Other advantage of soldering connector while it's plugged in is that, even if you exceed temperature on connector and melt the plastic a little bit, terminals on connector will stay aligned properly. Therefor, you will be able to plug them later. However, when soldering negative wire to the connector, unplug the male connector because exposed contacts on it could created unnecessary problems.
3. Use a peace of foam or something similar to protect the wires from crocodile clips. Silicon wires are very soft and sharp clips will damage the insulation very easily. In some rare cases you could damage the wire enough to cause short circuit and a lot of damage (crash).
You will need:
Battery (of course) - Turnigy Nano-tech 3S, 2200mah, 35-70C in my case:
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T-Plug (Deans):
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4.5mm to 6.0mm Heatshrink (Shrink Tube):
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Silicon battery protector:
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Soldering Paste:
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Soldering Iron (30W):
Any 30W (or similar) soldering iron.
Solder (60/40):
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Third/helping hand tool:
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Precision Knife:
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Lighter and pliers...
Enjoy RC as much as I do! :)
Additional information:
Video: iPhone 4
Editing: FinalCut Pro X
Music: GarageBand
Please read the video description for additional information, tips and tricks, warnings, links and more. For everything else, please leave a comment down below. I will answer them ASAP!
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I love your video, but i don't like fact that you cut down 2-3 cm from the clonnector you could simply desolder. :) But, anyway i love your sk-450 video, and you earned a subcriber. You're doing a really great, helpful, and professional tutorial!
Very helpful video, I don't have RC stuff, but was looking for a video for my e-bike battery connectors, and this vid contains everything I needed to know. Thank you very much!
Thanks! I wanted to make my battery wires shorter so I intentionally cut them. But yes, if you want to keep battery wires length the same you should desolder the connector.
Great work!
Very detailed instructions - perfect for beginners and advanced RC enthusiasts.
I enjoy your lengthy notes and safety measures.
Your video editing must be a labor of love because it looks great - very professional.
I subscribed. Please keep it up!
Thanks Guntar. I will be back very soon thanks to support like yours. Stay tuned.
i quote guntar131 Excellent work!!!
Thanks!
I have to agree with the others, very clear and well produced video yet again. I have a couple of batteries with XT60 connectors but I now want a higher capacity 3S battery for a Q450/HK450/HJ450 type quadcopter with 930k motors (3000-5000mah) - none of the higher capacity batteries I have seen come with XT60 connectors. Are they suitable to be rewired to XT60?
XT stands for hextronic. 60 stands for 60A current rating. So, you can safely use XT60 connectors for applications that require up to 60A. Not knowing any more details about your build, I would say you can safely use them for 450 size quad builds.
excellent recording and editing, very nice rotation shots, clean and stylish :)
So do you feel XT60's are better than deans purely in terms of connection? I am about to assemble my SK450. Should I replace XT60's with Deans in my batteries?
dude i need to splice jst on to my 2000 mah flight battery is it safe todonas used battery yesterday do flate can you domem fully charged never done but its to power fpv gear on my qaud cheers any help.vids on what todonas im a newbee thank you
Nice vid! How did you do the product rotation effect? Did you use a white round table and spin it on a white background?
Precisely! ;)
why was very carefully emphasized on soldering the negative wire? what can happen?
accord21 You shouldn't bridge negative and positive wires together or you will damage the battery or even cause a fire.
Good question. Deans are good connectors and I'm use to them. Besides, I have tons of them. But I must say that I'm starting to like XT60's better and I'll probably switch to them in the future. Right now I'm to lazy, I guess. :-P
Why do you want to use deans?
Guys, this is really a great helpful video. Thanks a lot.
GLTSA Thanks man!
Yes, I thinks that XT60's are overall better connectors. Easier to solder, they come on most batteries, easier to connect and disconnect etc. Actually, I've already switched to XT60's. I'll mention this briefly in future videos. My recommendation is that you stay with XT60's.
what connectors should i buy to use on traxxas slash? bought 4 Turnigy nano-tech 5800mah 2S2P 30~60C Hardcase Lipo Pack (ROAR APPROVED) from hobbyking com
Cheers
Yes. Just let me know if you will use it somewhere else except on your blog. And shot me a link to your blog in PM. ;)
Well, if you haven't change anything, you have Traxxas connectors on you Slash. So, you should buy Traxxas (Female) connectors for these batteries.
Of course I wouldn't mind. I would be very happy if you do so! :)
Thank you!
thanks for the reply.
RC porn. Thanks Very Much for the video.
:D Thanks man!
That's a lot of shit just for soldering a damn battery onto a copter. All you need is a soldering iron, solder, battery and the copter.
Thank you!