Batteries

**mattsdragons** · 15th February 2012, 20:22

Originally Posted by harry hills

yay for maths

shouldn't that be 16.8v?

:P

**Scooperman** · 17th February 2012, 09:26

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.

**archie2000** · 17th February 2012, 09:40

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

**Scooperman** · 17th February 2012, 11:13

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.

**harry hills** · 17th February 2012, 11:17

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

**Bodge Job** · 17th February 2012, 11:44

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.