Batteries

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Originally Posted by harry hills

yay for maths :lol:
shouldn't that be 16.8v?

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:P :lol:

Thank you very much, just two more questions (I hope)

1. If I get batteries with dean's connectors do I just have to get a dean's connector linked to my charger to plug the battery in?
2. Do I connect the two batteries in series, i.e. one connected to the other and then to the robot or parallel i.e. both connected to the robot together? I hope I have got these the right way around, if not feel free to correct me. :rofl:

Urm take this from the person who is worst with batteries in the whole world
dont try this at home wait for an experienced roboteer to do this
You take the negative wire off one battery and join it to the positive off another battery
And the remaining plus and minus are the battery leads you use
Confusing but my sketch up model didnt work :(

That makes sense to me, but why not try it at home? am I likely to blow it up? It does not sound too complicated.

he said that as he has blown up many batterys himself and so he was admitting you might want to follow other advice first.

i use this adapter to run 2 batterys to get a higher voltage
http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad31 ... 001-33.jpg

Yeh, you just have to run them in a series circuit, just make a contector like Harry's, that's the easiest way to do it, but get the tabs on the connectors the right way round.

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Originally Posted by harry hills

he said that as he has blown up many batterys himself and so he was admitting you might want to follow other advice first.

i use this adapter to run 2 batterys to get a higher voltage
http://i947.photobucket.com/albums/ad31 ... 001-33.jpg

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So the two batteries are connected to the two dean's connectors and then that connection (on the right of the photo) just goes to the robot?

yes basicly. you run that with a link to the esc.

YAY FOR MY ADVICE

Have got the robot running, see basic trial at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TCnesdoNvY