Sometime last autumn, Pack A which was hidden inside the Revive frame tube disconnected at the first cell. I pulled the pack out and I wondered if the frame tube pack idea was worth the trouble. I hadn't touched Pack A until now because I'm short on range. I thought it's time to get crackin' on my swing arm pack using my new enclosures.
The original cells tabs were weak so I decided to tear them out and solder fabbed copper tabs.
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The negative tabs were welded really well and was a bit tricky to remove. I was left with sharp bits on the negative that need to be filed down. The positive tabs positive tabs pulled off effortlessly.
I found it odd that, if you remove the cell's paper insulation, that the whole cell body is positive and the negative is just a tiny island separated from the positive by just millimeters apart.
At first I couldn't decide on whether I should hold the pack together with duct tape or glue. I never liked the idea of committing the cells with glue and didn't want to wrap the whole pack with large and expensive heat shrink. What I want is to have the cells accessible (if I ever kill a cell again) and not have to tear into the pack and having to wrap it again with more expensive heat shrink. Duct tape was almost doable if kept to a minimum but it still gets sticky gunk all over the cells that gets stickier in summer heat. Well I shat me a brilliant idea so I brokedown and hopped on the hotglue bandwagon. Yep!
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I've never used hotglue before and always wondered what the advantage of it is over using only a tube of silicone sealant. So I buzzed down the hardware store still wondering if I should pay 23 bucks for the hot glue kit or pay 3 bucks for a tube of silicone.. me being a cheap bastard..I asked for a tube of clear silicone. The clerk searched high and low, out of hundreds of sealant, silicone, glue products and he couldn't find one that was clear. I thought it might be God's way of telling me to go for the hot glue kit. And I'm an atheist! Well I was blown away by the convenience of not having to wait forever for it to cure. Instant gratification is so King. Shoot, now I have to find other uses for it to justify owning it... hell, I'm knee deep into this hobby so fuggit...
Earlier, I checked the height of the cell and it fitted nicely in the enclosure but my dumbass didn't bother to see if two cells fit side-by-side. I found that two cells were few a millimeters too wide and the enclosure wouldn't shut flush. So I staggered them and I'm in there like hardware leaving me with just enough space on the sides of the cells for the charging harness. shweetness!
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So Dee Jay, what's this brilliant idea you've come up with this time?
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After pulling Pack A out of the frame tube, I was left with the 1 meter long heat shrink tubing that I used to loosely insulate the pack and
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Solid!
But Dee Jay, what if you kill a cell? That means you'd have to tear the heat shrink blah blah blah...
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Fnck no! I can simply cut the tabs and viola! Slide that sucker out, and slide another one in! Tee hee hee!
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~ Tra ~ la ~ la ~ I am the man.. 8)
Tuck the boys in bed. Nite-nite.
J