Traxxas Lipo (how to change connectors)
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Hello everyone! Today's I am showing you how to change the lipo leads and to how to add balance leads to a Traxxas lipo. This is very dangerous and I don't recommend if you don't understand what I am doing in this video. You will also void your Traxxas battery warranty . If you choose to do this modification, please be careful. If you have any questions regarding this video, please comment down below. Just remember I am not responsible for your actions, I also recommend you to research basic electrical and to get a multi meter. Thanks for watching everyone.
Dude, I’ve been soldering things together since I was a kid, and I’m still afraid to mess with lipos. One fire too many,, I guess. I really like the way you break it down into simple steps. Keep it up! You’re a good educator and your speed run videos are great.
😂I blew up a coin-cell battery trying to solder it, and was like a firecracker going off on my bench. Scared the cr@p out me! I'm building a spot welder to make Li-Ion battery banks, but getting impatient with how long it's taking me to get it done. I have a set of 20700s sitting on my bench with the leads all prepped and ready, and I just keep looking at it, temping myself, each day that the welder isn't finished yet.
Thank you so much man i wanted to do this with my lipos a ling time ago i was too scared and didnt exactly know how to i just did this with 2 of my traxxas 3s lipos and they work perfectly❤❤
I am glad it worked out good for you. Thanks for watching
You def. know your stuff! Good video brother!
Appreciate that man.
Very informative and helpful as always. Great job bro.
Thanks for stopping by my dude
Great job !! Great info on if you don’t know what your doing please leave it alone 👍
No worries man. And thanks for watching
is there a cable i can BUY to extend the cable length for the 3s sledge batteries so i can charge with a bat-safe?
Im jealous of your collection. You know your stuff man!
Don't be jealous man. I eat noodles everyday for lunch. Thanks for watching man
Well he made it work. But he wasn't doing any favors for that soldering iron tip. And I would head his warnings at the beginning of the video. Very little solder to hold the balance leads on and duck tape is not very wise here. They sell big enough heatshrink all day every day to properly hold all. Of that down. Which If you do this I would advise using it. Because all it takes is one of those wires to short and that lipo is going to burn your house down. Lipos are very nasty batteries, id also recommended a fire safe bag and an ammo can to store these modified batteries in.... Well store all Lipos. Like that regardless.
But good Info on teaching people how to re use these batteries for other applications and or just doing away with the dumb proprietary connectors.
I might be the only one to ask if anyone has a good used iD end...lol. one of my balance connectors broke to where it just pulls out. Now my iD charger only sees two cells and won't charge it.
Thanks so much for the very very informative video my Brother spot on 🤙 take care an stay safe healthy and happy 💙🙏
Thanks for checking out the video. U do the same, take care and stay safe 💯💪
Awesome video Bro nice tutorial on changing the connectors great job thumbs up 👍
Thanks for stopping by my bro forreal 🙏 💯
Thanks for stopping by bro
Thanks for the video! I'm so sick of having to buy Traxxas garbage and use their bull$ht chargers that are so finiky and then they come out with new batteries that the charger doesn't charge so you have to buy a new one. I'm done doing that, they can pound sand!
Where can i get info on how to figure out how to make a seperate balance like this? Great video i just need a little closer up detail on where does each cable onnthe balance goes to
I am working on a new video, I will post link here and I hope it helps
@@KiloWattRC where are you ever able to make that video on how to wire a separate balance on a traxxas lipo battery? I’m looking everywhere for instructions and I can’t find nothing
Good video man, thanks
Thank-you and thanks for watching
Tysm!You helped me out a lot
Glad ot worked out for you. Thanks for watching 👀 🙂 🙏
Duct tape conducts electricity... doesn't seem like best choice.
Absolutely maybe. 00.0001 amps before it trips like a fuse. U got electrical tape and heatshrink which work great. Thanks for watching 👀
If I do this to my traxxas 4s batteries can I still use my easy peak charger if I make an adapter
yes you can use traxxas charger with an adapter for main leads to charger
I just noticed you changed the name of your channel? Lol I share this video all the time when people ask me if this is possible but I don't know anyone who does it
Nice job
Thank you
Legit 👊
Thanks for watching
Really wish there was a close up of all connections couldn’t really make out the individual cell connections
I can do a update video showing a closer shot of what's going on
Great video bro 👍👍👍
Do you have a video showing you putting these connectors that you’re putting on this battery on the 3S battery
No I haven't made one. But it's the same concept just minus one cell
What solder do you use
Kester 60/40
Duct tape has aluminum in it its a very bad choice for wrapping your battery thats why they make electrical tape smarty pants
Should call you smarty pants. Electrical tape is used for covering bare wiring. I don't remember putting duct tape directly over anything that is Electrically conductive. Thanks for watching
Damn brah you cold 🔥🔥💯💪🏾
Thank for checking out the video my dude
Good info buddy. 👍🇨🇦👈🤠
Thanks for watching
How much would it be to have 4 traxxas batteries done like this? 6700 4s They are also for my x maxx. I need qs8 connectors on them if so.
$80. Let me know
What charger is that buddy
I charger 406 duo
Craziness…..but smart
Thanks for stopping by bro
Hmm...so around 6:00 only 3 balance leads...is this why Traxxas lipos are notorious for puffing?
It can be a number of things, not being able to see pack resistance to determine is cells are going bad. As far as the balance leads its kinda had to properly balance using main leads
@@KiloWattRC Hmmm, that's twice now my reply has been deleted. I'm assuming it's maybe RUclips censoring it? Not sure why when I thanked you for the video and asked if that's an iCharger in the background. Or can't we mention other forums? Weird but I'll check back to see if this gets removed. RUclips at it's best...censor & hide facts - geeeeesh...
@@N_Fortune I see your comment
@@KiloWattRC Thx for confirming! My original comment keeps getting deleted so I'll try this again (let me know if you see this & I've taken screenshots lol)...
"Thx for sharing this video! Btw, is that an iCharger I see you using? If so, I have a 206B and couldn't be happier with it as I feel iChargers are the one of the best chargers for the money imho. I took a pic the other day of my SMC 4S lipos perfectly balancing each cell at 4.20 and this AFTER 3 1/2 years of abuse, lol! SMC is a great battery but I give more credit to my iCharger. The RCGroups forum is a great forum and has a thread dedicated to the iCharger and there's a lot of great knowledge over there btw. A member named Julez apparently helped work on the algorithm for the iCharger and he's really active over on RCG. Take care & thx again for your video!"
Yes I see your last comment. Good info man, I will definitely check for that forum. Good info man, and ofcourse thanks for watching man
How would i do this with a 3s??
Same sequence minus one cell and a 3s balance plug
You do this for people ?
Sure depending on the condition of the battery
@@KiloWattRC my two traxxas are brand new just don’t like how I can’t use a different charger
Wouldn't you been better off just snipping off the standard Traxxas connection and the soldering your new connection in its place? Would have been lots safer than opening up the battery case or even just using an adaptor plug to join from Traxxas to whatever ESC you use. I've seen they are available, as for the way the battery gets balanced that's just something that's intrinsic to Traxxas. Maybe you should buy an aftermarket non Traxxas battery that has its cells balanced properly. If that's what Traxxas do with there batteries then I wouldn't buy Traxxas batteries. I don't know for sure but it wouldn't surprise me if it's Traxxas batteries that have been overly represented in battery fires seeing as how many cars and trucks Traxxas sell.
if you snip off the traxxas connection and solder on your own connection there will be no way to balance. Better off just leaving the pack alone. I mean I build and rebuild packs so opening a lipo pack to me is no different then changing a battery in a car and avoiding shorting the terminals with a wrench. Adapters add more connection points and is never good. I have a ton of lipos on deck this video was requested by users for me to do. Hobby shops that are traxxas dealers a pushed to sell traxxas lipos along with the RC to get rcs at a cheaper rate. So alot of people get suckered into buying them. This lipo in the video was donated by a user as well. There are so many options and my preference is to get lipos directly from factories for testing vs buying from a business that marks them up.
@@KiloWattRC all well and good but the tape to repair the case after opening it up was not safe at all. And for instance I'm using a non Traxxas battery in a TRX 4 ( my battery is a NXE SHORTY 2S LIPO HARDCASE 100 C DISCHARGE 6000 MA/H ) and my battery has a balance cable separately to the main battery cable so I use an adaptor between the ESC to the battery without cutting off the ESC plug. It keeps the Traxxas ESC plug but adapts to Dean's plug. My charger has a seperate balance port from the battery cable port. It works great . I'm in Australia but I'm surprised you haven't seen the adaptor plug I'm referring to over in America. And this adaptor plug won't instantly void my Traxxas warranty which is only a 30 day warranty. But if the TRX 4 craps itself there is no way Traxxas could ever say I voided my warranty by snipping battery cables.
@joedipietro2559 did a IR test is completely fine. I am sorry t9 break it to you but if your lipo says it's a 100c it's honestly can't handle 100c. Trust me man no adapters on my end, of course warranty is void and some honestly don't care and would honestly run better leads along with connections then to worry about warranty when they were already suckered into buying traxxas lipos
Have you seen the battery I'm referring to? I've also seen much more expensive batteries from Spektrum and Gensace that have much higher discharge rates like 130C . Here in Australia we have very high standards on electrical products such as batteries.traxxas themselves actually had a shipping container turned away from the Port of Melbourne in August last year due to tiny minute particles of asbestos found in slipper clutches in Traxxas cars and trucks. The same goes for anything that gets imported here. Very extremely high safety standards that would actually be to strict even for America and China and Europe. Even food standards prohibiting imported food products from overseas. So if a battery is claimed to be a certain discharge rate it is tested or else wouldn't be allowed for sale in Australia under consumer laws. I ain't lying. But the Traxxas TRX 4 chassis platform is a very good , very capable of road crawler . Nothing per say wrong with the mechanical aspect. It's just Traxxas have a crappy reputation for electronic components. As well as the litigation action that give Traxxas a bad name. @KiloWattRC
Don't ever let the haters try to bring you down over your bitch mittens!
Lol, this comment had me rolling.
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Get that limitless on the road and stop playing lol
U ready for that?