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Homemade packs


Philip
 

HOWEVER, use caution when soldering up your pack and be especially careful not to accidentally cause a short circuit with your jumpers. Take your time.

There is a lot of energy bound up in even uncharged cells and things can get exciting VERY quickly in an unpleasant way. AND, be sure to include a fuse on the positive pack pigtail when you are done.

Philip
KA4KOE

--- In Racal-manpacks@..., Stuartjmckinnon@... wrote:


In a message dated 28/02/2010 14:00:08 GMT Standard Time, kludge@...
writes:




They are NiCd batteries and they are 24 volt packs so you want 20 cells
in series. That's a lot of cells.

You cannot solder to the cells directly without risking damage, but you
can buy cells with tabs attached which you can solder together. Your local
battery recelling shop can spotweld the whole pack together if you want to
go that way also.
--scott





Well done Scott

Thanks

stuart

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