Need help soldering a battery
04-11-2007, 08:23 PM
#1
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: new iberia,
LA
Posts: 52
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
Need help soldering a battery
Ordered a couple of 7 Cell IB packs, and they barely fit, so I decided to just take off the 7th cell and solder a bridge between the two ends.....but for some reason, the solder doesn't wanna stick. I am using rosin core 60/40 solder.....any tricks to this?
04-11-2007, 08:43 PM
#2
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Lakeside,
ON, CANADA
Posts: 6,936
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes
on
0 Posts
RE: Need help soldering a battery
Since you have to ask Im guessing your soldering skill isnt high enough to solder cells to begin with.
If you really want to do it; try soldering onto the negative side of the cell because you will have less chanche of wrecking the nylon seal. To get the solder to stick sand the area you want to solder and apply some flux, then pretin with a hot (60-80watt) iron, wait for it to cool, tin your wire, and solder them together. Also Im confused about your bridge statement.......you want to unsolder one cell and then connect a wire to where you unsoldered from the main pack.
Edit: Hold the iron to the cell as short as possible btw......
If you really want to do it; try soldering onto the negative side of the cell because you will have less chanche of wrecking the nylon seal. To get the solder to stick sand the area you want to solder and apply some flux, then pretin with a hot (60-80watt) iron, wait for it to cool, tin your wire, and solder them together. Also Im confused about your bridge statement.......you want to unsolder one cell and then connect a wire to where you unsoldered from the main pack.
Edit: Hold the iron to the cell as short as possible btw......
