Steps to solder to a battery: 1: Clean the battery terminal well with emery paper. 2: Tin terminal using as little heat as possible. 3: Quickly sink extra heat from tinned terminal by pressing it against an aluminum plate. 4: Preheat wire (or braid) to be connected to terminal and apply some solder to it. 5: Quickly connect wire to terminal. 6: Remove heat ASAP and heatsink connection (perhaps grab it with a pliers) to prevent a lot of heat from running from the wire into the battery. Bob Ammerman RAm Systems ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roman Black" To: Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2002 7:18 AM Subject: Re: [EE]:Safely connecting a wire to a terminal-less battery > Lawrence Lile wrote: > > > > You'll get varying opionions about soldering to a battery, some good, some > > bad. I'd avoid it. But you could also use conductive epoxy if this is a > > one-off. I think you can get it from mouser or jameco, etc. There may also > > be a clip that fits this battery. > > > Have done it for years, many TVs and appliances > have batteries soldered in, and it's just common > practice in that industry. Also one of our apprentices > was in the electric model aeroplane club and showed > me their tricks for soldering NiCd battery packs > from cells using solder wick braid to take the > 100 amps(!) etc some of the planes take. > > Just scrub the ends of the battery with fine > emery paper, use a good clean solder and they > will tin up in a second, the battery doesn't > even get warm if you do it right. Never seen a > battery fail from soldering if done right. :o) > -Roman > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different > ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details. > > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.