Charger question

[bertberr]

Hi, got myself an Orion Advantage Carbon charger that has crocodile clips on the output leads to the battery. Now I'm planning on using deans (female) or 3.5mm bullets (with a male & female each side to prevent shorting) on my 1500mah batteries for an RC18, but (and please don't shoot a newb for asking), how the hell do you attach a female deans to crocodile clips, or even bullets where the positive is female and has heatshrink right up to the end???

[super__dan]

You should always use the females on the cells and males on the charger really. But you're going to need to cut off the crocs and solder connectors on.

If using Corally style connectors either buy the ones that have a seperate part so you can neatly solder into the one end which won't go through to the other end, or solder onto the outside and heatshrink over it.

DO NOT SHORTEN THE LEADS INCLUDING THE VOLTAGE SENSING LEADS ON THE CHARGER.

[bertberr]

Thanks for reply, couple of questions though:

What type of connector could have been used with the crocodile clips to start with? There must have been something or Orion wouldn't have supplied the charger with those on as standard, surely..???

Instead of cutting croc' clips off, could I make a sort of link wire, say about 5-10cm long, with bullets one end (with a gap of 5mm or so between end of bullet and start of heatshrink on the female) to be gripped by the crocs' and my chosen connector the other end??? If this is crazy, just say

Cheers
BB

[super__dan]

Crocs slipper onto nicads/nimh where people had bent the tab over and either direct soldered their speedo wires onto the cells (no longer allowed) or had exposed female tubes to clip onto.

Your solution would work, I see people do it at nationals but I don't like it from a reliability point of view or an accurate voltage sensing point of view.