Connect home-made battery pack to SSC-32

Lynxmotion Electronics & Software
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Hi,

Im going to buy the BRAT (if it dosent go out of stock :laughing:) but i dont have the battery pack and dont have enough money to buy it presently so it goes in future expensise. Im going to have 5 1.2V AA batteries in a platic pack. How can I plug it in the SSC-32 board?

Sam thanks

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just buy two mating connectors and specify that you will need a male and female connector in the coments box. then you can put one into the electronic card (ssc-32 or botboard w/e) and one connected to your specially made battery pack.

Make sure you solder the wires good so they don’t come apart.

hope this helps. :smiley:

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hi, I didn,t reaaly understand. Waht are mating connectors? so I wright in the comments box that I want a male female connecor, what is that? is it the wiring harness without the little plastic thing that connects to batteries?
so I just solder the wires from my specially made battery pack to one end of the wiring harness and the other end of the wiring harness to the SSc-32 or whatever?

Sam

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exactly. Make sure you ask for a male and female connector, hopefully lynxmotion will give you them. They are the plastic battery connectors.

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hi again, i just want to be sure. I buy a battery quick connect ( lynxmotion.com/Product.aspx? … egoryID=44) thatcomes with the BRAT. I add in the comments box that I want the plastic thing to be female so i can plug the bettery quick connect into it?

so one end of the battery quick connect comes to my battery pack (that I solder together) and the other to the wiring harness. one end of the wiring harness goes to he battery quick connect wich i just plug in and the other end to the screw therminal of the SSC-32.

Sam thanks

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yes :laughing:

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so i ask the plastic thing to be male on the wiring harness, wouldn’t be a better idea to ask the batery quick connect to be female?

Sam, im getting nervous lol sorry :blush:

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The connector on our battery packs is female. All of the other cables (quick connect and wiring harness) are male. We don’t sell the female connector separately, sorry.

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good thing your around here beth.

Anyways sam, If you can try and find a female connecter from another old battery pack or something and just cut it off. You can use that as your connector to the battery harness.

or google it.

Joe out. 8)

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thanks :smiley:

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um, be careful when you are cutting wires attached to battery packs… as in don’t cut both leads at the same time. laugh, but I’ve seen it done. when you go to re-attach them remember that the leads are hot (as in powered) so take care to prevent them from shorting to each other, either directly or inadvertently. :wink:

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OUCH! ok, so I was dumb enogh to let that happen to me once, when I was connecting two 7.2 V batteries together to make 14.4v. :open_mouth:

There was a painful feeling in my finger (a burning sensation as I recall) and a heck of a light show. :smiley:

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yeah, that’s a bad idea… :laughing:

regards, Sam