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Attach Wires to NMH Batteries Without Soldering
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:50:40 -0800 (PST), in sci.electronics.repair you wrote:
On Dec 20, 12:38 pm, Bob E. wrote: Do what Mr. Cook suggests, it is what I frequently do. I second this. I've done this several times with "non-replaceable" cells in shavers, etc. and have had no failures related to quick-soldering, only the usual slow degradation over time of the cell chemistry. Tin the wire, emery-paper the terminals, clean, drop of flux, quick solder. Also, use fairly small wire for the attachment and put a tiny blob of solder on the wire to be attached... Then a quick touch with the iron will melt both blobs together. The secret is minimum heat and time, but it is easy to do...... and be sure to use the emery paper on the batt terminals first.... Hi Andy, I decided to do what the majority of respondents recommended. I have a 200/260W Weller solder gun and when I gave it some thought, when someone spot welds a tab onto the battery, it creates a momentary hot spot on the battery. The Weller gun can't to worse than a spot weld as long as the time is short and proper preparation is made. By golly, I had no trouble at all and the results turned out great! Thanks to everyone and Merry Christmas, John |
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I have a 200/260W Weller solder gun and when I gave it some thought,
when someone spot welds a tab onto the battery, it creates a momentary hot spot on the battery. The Weller gun can't to worse than a spot weld as long as the time is short and proper preparation is made. Oh, yes it can. A spot weld takes a fraction of a second, and the heat appears over a small area. By golly, I had no trouble at all and the results turned out great! I hope so. I've seen connections of this sort fail * with the solder blob simply falling off the battery. * as do spot welds, of course |
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Attach Wires to NMH Batteries Without Soldering
On Sat, 22 Dec 2012 06:14:53 -0800, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote: I have a 200/260W Weller solder gun and when I gave it some thought, when someone spot welds a tab onto the battery, it creates a momentary hot spot on the battery. The Weller gun can't to worse than a spot weld as long as the time is short and proper preparation is made. Oh, yes it can. A spot weld takes a fraction of a second, and the heat appears over a small area. A bit more than a fraction of second. See video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7LKhhyokbQ starting at 0:50. I would guess(tm) about 1/2 second for the spot weld. I would also guess(tm) that the heat affected zone on the battery is much larger with the high wattage Weller because of the longer dwell time and larger thermal contact area. When I was soldering batteries, the cell was noticably warm after soldering. When doing the same with a CD welder, it was stone cold. By golly, I had no trouble at all and the results turned out great! I test my battery packs with a West Mountain Radio CBA-II. http://www.westmountainradio.com/product_info.php?products_id=cba4 If there's a problem, it will be obvious on the graphs. I hope so. I've seen connections of this sort fail * with the solder blob simply falling off the battery. Not if you sandpaper the base metal. When I solder to a battery, the solder will wet to the edge of the sandpaper zone, but not into the non-sandpapered area. That implies that there's some manner of coating on the battery case that should be removed with an abrasive before soldering. * as do spot welds, of course The real problems are in high current applications, where the weld turns into a fuse. Power tools are a good example. I did a lousy job of replacing NiMH cells in a Makita 18V driver. After about 4 hrs of use, the pack went to open. An autopsy showed that my welds had fused open. I went to 4 spots instead of 2 spots per terminal, and it was fine. -- Jeff Liebermann 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558 |
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"William Sommerwerck" wrote in message ... I have a 200/260W Weller solder gun and when I gave it some thought, when someone spot welds a tab onto the battery, it creates a momentary hot spot on the battery. The Weller gun can't to worse than a spot weld as long as the time is short and proper preparation is made. Oh, yes it can. A spot weld takes a fraction of a second, and the heat appears over a small area. By golly, I had no trouble at all and the results turned out great! I hope so. I've seen connections of this sort fail * with the solder blob simply falling off the battery. But not if it is done properly in the way that has been carefully detailed, and by someone who can solder properly in the first place. For a number of years, I repaired 1st and 2nd generation cordless phones, and used to make up my own battery packs at the rate of a couple a day. These repairs were done for a two local phone shops, and for a travelling CB and accessory salesman who called at many shops around the country, picking up the repairs one week, and dropping them back the next. The batteries that I was joining by soldering were of course NiCds back then, but I never had any problems with exploding ones, or rapid failures, and trust me, if early failures had been an issue, the shops would soon have been throwing them back at me ... Arfa * as do spot welds, of course |
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