A battery connector question

[tim slocum]

My Vision Peak 2 charger comes with a charging wire with a tamiya connection at one end and a J type, rectanglular plug for reciever batteries at the other.This works fine for one of my reciever packs,but my other one has a different type of plug. Its more square and smaller.Do they make a wire that has tamiya at one end and one of these smaller,square connectors at the other end?This would simplify my charging procedure.(one less charger to deal with)Yesterday, I was charging batteries,and man,I had chargers,batteries,and wires everywhere!!I had the SLA's on a wall charger,a 3300mah NiMh hooked to the Vision Peak,and some NiMh AA's (for the reciever battery holder) in another charger.Do you folks ever think,"there got to be an easier way"

[LtDoc]

Tim,
Probably the 'easiest' way would be to find the appropriate connectors and solder them all to the end of a single charger (if that charger will handle all the different batteries). Sort like a 'pit-tail' with lots of 'fingers'. No idea which particular connector you're talking about, but it shouldn't really be that hard to find.
- 'Doc

[Allen D]

I've got a radio shack charger I use that'll do 6-9.6 v. It didn't have a deans plug in it, which I'm curious if this is the type of plug you are talking about. I just got a tamiya plug and soldered a deans to it as an adapter. Radio shack carries the tamiya plugs in stock, and I got a boat load of deans off ebay due to the number of boat projects I have, and the fact that many here say to go with the deans due to less resistance vs tamiya. I really like the deans plugs, but man are they hard to plug and unplug :censored: . Gotta break em in, I guess!!! :confused:

[LtDoc]

Allen,
If it's easy, it probably ain't no good. (Boy! Did I open myself up with that one :)).
- 'Doc

[pompebled]

Hi Tim,

My guess is you're at the same point I was a few years ago; several chargers and batteries with a number of different connectors...

I quickly found out (the hard way, melting and shorting out..) that Tamiya are not suitable for boats beyond 6 cells.

I ended up soldering 4mm goldplated connectors on all my chargerleads and batterypacks, and boy, my life got a lot easier!

For the smaller (receiver) packs and Lipo's, I used 2mm goldplated connectors, to keep the weight down.

As my and my son race fast electrics, we travel 'light', with six microprocessor chargers (one for each boat, a box of (identical) charger leads and three Gel Batteries to power the whole circus on a race day.

For the events that provide AC and at home, I have a 40A switching power supply.

Regards, Jan.

[Ghost 2501]

Hi Tim,

My guess is you're at the same point I was a few years ago; several chargers and batteries with a number of different connectors...

I quickly found out (the hard way, melting and shorting out..) that Tamiya are not suitable for boats beyond 6 cells.

I ended up soldering 4mm goldplated connectors on all my chargerleads and batterypacks, and boy, my life got a lot easier!

For the smaller (receiver) packs and Lipo's, I used 2mm goldplated connectors, to keep the weight down.

As my and my son race fast electrics, we travel 'light', with six microprocessor chargers (one for each boat, a box of (identical) charger leads and three Gel Batteries to power the whole circus on a race day.

For the events that provide AC and at home, I have a 40A switching power supply.

Regards, Jan.

I regularly run 9.6v on a najade pulling 50 amps with tamiya type connectors, not a hint of bother :)

[tim slocum]

The reciever pack Im refering to is from a simple Ranger 2channel system.The connector is very small and red in color.It might be that the reciever battery holder was meant for AA alkalines only and not meant to be used to recharge the NiMh AA's I have in it? I can take the AA's out and charge them with the charger they came with,but I thought Id cut down on chargers if I could charge them in the holder with my Vision Peak 2.

[Rex R]

oh those plugs. what you need is a female jst > female tamiya adapter. your lhs should carry them. if not cheapbatterypacks can make you one(or more) hth
rex

[toesup]

I regularly run 9.6v on a najade pulling 50 amps with tamiya type connectors, not a hint of bother :)

I used to run cars with Tamiya connectors without a problem.. until one of the male pins welded itself to the female... :eek: and i had to 'cut wires' to disconnect it.. :censored:

Since then i have used Dean's plugs on ALL my batteries.. :)

[Rex R]

the 'gofast' crowd has another name for the tamiya connectors...we call 'em fuses :)

[mfr02]

If you follow doc's suggestion and make a cat 'o nine tails, remember the rule is "not more than one battery at a time". Even if the batteries are the same nominal voltage, exciting/interesting circulating currents can happen.

[CaptLee]

Made a set of pigtails with a Dean's Ultra plug on one end and whatever was needed for the other. you end up with a box of adapters(At least that is what I call them) but can charge just about everything I see using a Triton Charger. And if you need a different one it is a simple task to make up a new one. Made the lead on the charger side a female type and all adapters are male type with needed type to fit battery. Watch some of the transmitter have diode internally so have to take the battery out to cycle them.

[tim slocum]

Thanks Rex, that what I needed.I'll look for some online.Seems I have extra of every other type of connect,except the one I need.