Frustrations with battery connectors and lack of standards

[Velocity Aerospace]

Yeah you can do that and power the positive and negative strands directly. There is a way to set it to record immediately on powerup and you can directly power it on the positive and neutral wires

Awesome. Thank you

 

[Orthotech]

Good safety practice is to cut ONE leg of the connector off, slide on a piece of heat shrink, solder the one leg of the new connector on, shrink the tubing, THEN repeat for the other leg. That 100% prevents any chance of shorting the battery leads.

Hey Cris
Had a question about attaching a pig tail the 2S has stainless wires and my pigtail is copper any hints on how to get these joined?

 

[cerving]

I've never had any problems joining pigtails, if it's like 18 ga and you're going to 22 ga then you may want to actually clip off some of the stands on the 18 ga cable.

 

[cbrarick]

you can actually disassemble the connector and reassemble it with opposite polarity.l.....google that!

 

[MarsLander]

I've never had any problems joining pigtails

How do you join pigtails? (not joking, just learning electronics).

 

[cerving]

Overlap them in-line, twist them together, then solder. You'll want to cover them with some heat shrink tubing, too. You'll need a "third hands" to hold the wires.

 

[DaHabes]

How do you join pigtails? (not joking, just learning electronics).

I use these...

Solder-Loaded Heat-Shrink No-Crimp Butt Splices​

https://www.mcmaster.com/catalog/130/883/6844N11