Clay & Carly Dunsworth <[email protected]> writes: > Speaking of this, I did mine the other day, I think without the board it > feels like the leads are going to be susseptable to failing if the battery > leads are bent around too much. They look like a brittle stainless lead. I > really want solder something ridgid back in there.... > > Thoughts?
There are two options. One is the one I chose, which is to use 2 mil Kapton tape for the insulating process, which is quite sturdy and unlikely to let the leads move around much. The other is to leave the protection circuit board in place and just move the leads from the output pads to the input pads. That works fine, but since it leaves useless mass and I wasn't as worried about lead flexing as you seem to be, I didn't choose that path. I guess you could also do something like flood the "ledge" end of the battery with RTV after soldering the wires and let that form up a semi-rigid block that might help keep things from wiggling? I wouldn't use epoxy because I don't know what the exothermic curing process might do to the battery .. never tried heating one, don't really want to! Bdale
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