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plz tell me u can understand, purple is parallel connections between two cells, red shows when series connections happen and white is where serious insulation would be needed.

@ZachTetra in this design battery terminals that would cause a short are pressed against each other by the series connections :smiley:

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hu huh whatawhat?

bruh much love I hate to tell you but I have no idea what’s happening in this photo and the markup doesn’t help :sweat_smile:

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oh shit in that battery? yeah you gotta have some layers of stuff in between. I go for like Fish Paper tape and foam.

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plz think about it, imaginie what is happening on the other side.

Dude it’s just like any other battery, think of each pouch as a parallel group and you want to make a really big brick pack

doesn’t this make more sense?

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More sense than what?

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than this

maybe I’m just not looking at it right but I can’t even see any terminal connections or series connections here. Isn’t that just different colored tape over the terminals? I’m so confused

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yeah I was just trying to show off the way I found to fit a reasonable sized battery into a common case nearly perfectly, with minimal height so lots of stuff can be put in the top of the case.

What I showed just has to be copy and pasted 3 times to make a 12S2P.

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I mean the other still makes sense, how you do the connections depends on how you have space for…the clamps are chunky as fuck, some soldered braid would be another option, or welding nickel and folding (iff it binds)

For sure! Yeah I’m just trying to see examples of how people have done their terminal and series connections with these cells and so far that image I suggested is the only one that shows that

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What are you using right now?

I’m not using anything, I’m planning the build its gonna be a 3s3p for my kweld. Back to my original question, will aluminum bar conduct properly?

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ok guess I’ll just have to build that pack for you so you can understand.

oh you’re doing a Kweld battery… Different than a esk8

given one of the cell’s tabs itself is aluminum it’s probably ok.

I’m making a kweld battery with these too! as soon as hobbyking does it’s thing!

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yeah that’s what I figured just wanted to double check,

yaaaaaa, so no space requirements at all, it can be chunky monkey al day

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I wonder if you could just wrap them in some thin copper wire and get better conductivity. Or maybe that’s just dumb…

I’m making three separate 3S1P’s and then paralleling them. I think that will make them more useful and easier to see if one cell is going bad.

according to the Kweld designer 3x 3.5mm bullets is ok but I’ve never used the thing so :fearful:

@whaddys my battery is extremely offended

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:rofl: :rofl: trust me I’ve thought about it too

Also I hope I didn’t offend your battery I just meant I couldn’t see the terminal connections so I was like what am I looking at, where???

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batteries have feelings too

as a pansexual I make love with my batteries every night. And it’s consensual

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