Rick Jones wrote: > I remember reading about Doug making his own contacts > that worked well .. but were a pain to attach and reattach. That was replaced with wires soldered directly to the pcb inside the battery pack. Problem solved. > Then I could leave the pair of batteries in the pouch > I have for the webbelt and just plug them in for > charging without removing them from the pouch. Same end result but I used a DB15 connector for one pack (laptop battery). Ribbon cable for the data pins and standed wire for the pos/neg leads. > I have a nice thin piece of copper that I can cut with > a good pair of scissors to make contacts. I was thinking > of just soldering the wires for the connector to the > contacts and just duct tape them the end. That works too, I did that earlier, but if you open the battery pack you can solder right onto the pcb. Those contacts are attached to the pcb. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/expander/false domain
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