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Icecube 57 just sent me a set of the battery harnesses that he is making for people. ES for sale section, or just PM Icecube 57 to buy one, or have something else custom made.
In this case, it's a set designed to connect 4 lipo packs. Ideal for taking 4-6s- 5ah lipo batteries, and making it into a 12s 10 ah pack to run a typical kit controller. This harness set fixes you up for an "idiot proof" lipo pack that easily charges and discharges with one simple plug that cannot be screwed up. It completely elimiates the possiblility of kentucky fried fingers.
It does not connect packs on the cell level. It's designed for simple foolproof non balancing charges, and discharging.
I'm giving it four smileys
So with the set you get three wiring harnesses. One battery set, one controller set, and one charger set.
One set extends the wires from the battery and connects two packs paralell. This can be used with any 4 packs of lipo with the same number of cells. So it could be taking 4- 6s 5 ah packs and connecting them into 2 6s 10 ah packs. Or it could be used with 4 -5s packs, 4-4s packs, whatever. It just needs to be 4 similar packs. But they could be different brands, or different c rates, so long as they are all the same in cell number. All 6s or all 5s, whatever.
This battery side harness terminates in what I am calling a block, 4- 45 amp anderson powerpoles. So at the block, its two sets of connectors that are the same voltage as the battery pack you have chosen. In the case of this review, I have4- 5s- 5 ah packs, 3 zippys and one turnigy. This battery side harness can be connected to the batteries, and left there untill you want to do a balancing charge. If you use the batteries conservativley, that won't be needed very often. On the other end, this has 4 mm bullets to match the hk lipo packs. Higher c rate packs use different size bullets though, so make sure you get what your batteries have.
To run the bike, you want to make a series connection between the two sets of paralelled lipo batteries. Simple, plug in the series connecting block to the battery side block and plug that into the controller. You can't mix em up, it's the one with two andersons on the end. Now you have a 10 ah battery at a voltage your controller can use. In this photo, using 5s lipo's, I have about 40v, 10 ah.View attachment 3
To charge, you want to paralell all four batteries. That way you just need one charger to run a non balancing charge on the pack. Simple, unplug the discharging series connection block harness, and plug in the charging block, which makes another paralell connection. So now all four batteries are paralell connected, and ready to charge to, in this example, 21v.
Again, pretty impossible to get the wrong harness, this one has bannana plugs, that fit your charger.
View attachment 2
Some of you will of course want to build your own set of harnesses. It's not rocket science to connect paralell or series, so I may as well show how the wires connect on the blocks.
Series
Paralell
In this case, it's a set designed to connect 4 lipo packs. Ideal for taking 4-6s- 5ah lipo batteries, and making it into a 12s 10 ah pack to run a typical kit controller. This harness set fixes you up for an "idiot proof" lipo pack that easily charges and discharges with one simple plug that cannot be screwed up. It completely elimiates the possiblility of kentucky fried fingers.
It does not connect packs on the cell level. It's designed for simple foolproof non balancing charges, and discharging.
I'm giving it four smileys
So with the set you get three wiring harnesses. One battery set, one controller set, and one charger set.
One set extends the wires from the battery and connects two packs paralell. This can be used with any 4 packs of lipo with the same number of cells. So it could be taking 4- 6s 5 ah packs and connecting them into 2 6s 10 ah packs. Or it could be used with 4 -5s packs, 4-4s packs, whatever. It just needs to be 4 similar packs. But they could be different brands, or different c rates, so long as they are all the same in cell number. All 6s or all 5s, whatever.
This battery side harness terminates in what I am calling a block, 4- 45 amp anderson powerpoles. So at the block, its two sets of connectors that are the same voltage as the battery pack you have chosen. In the case of this review, I have4- 5s- 5 ah packs, 3 zippys and one turnigy. This battery side harness can be connected to the batteries, and left there untill you want to do a balancing charge. If you use the batteries conservativley, that won't be needed very often. On the other end, this has 4 mm bullets to match the hk lipo packs. Higher c rate packs use different size bullets though, so make sure you get what your batteries have.
To run the bike, you want to make a series connection between the two sets of paralelled lipo batteries. Simple, plug in the series connecting block to the battery side block and plug that into the controller. You can't mix em up, it's the one with two andersons on the end. Now you have a 10 ah battery at a voltage your controller can use. In this photo, using 5s lipo's, I have about 40v, 10 ah.View attachment 3
To charge, you want to paralell all four batteries. That way you just need one charger to run a non balancing charge on the pack. Simple, unplug the discharging series connection block harness, and plug in the charging block, which makes another paralell connection. So now all four batteries are paralell connected, and ready to charge to, in this example, 21v.
Again, pretty impossible to get the wrong harness, this one has bannana plugs, that fit your charger.
View attachment 2
Some of you will of course want to build your own set of harnesses. It's not rocket science to connect paralell or series, so I may as well show how the wires connect on the blocks.
Series
Paralell