Connector(s) suitable for battery charger(s)

tinnews · 2007-03-09T13:57:03+00:00

I'm looking for an easy and reliable way of connecting batterychargers to a lawn tractor and a mini tractor battery. The standardcrocodile clips that come with the chargers are unreliable, go rustyand are too easy to touch on the wrong place.I'm quite happy to drill some holes etc. in the tractors and I am alsoquite happy to do some soldering etc. Requirements are pretty obviousreally:- Reasonable current capacity, say 10 amps or so maximum. Weather resistant in the sense of not corroding. Polarised by some means or other. Reasonably compact. Would prefer if they will simply pull apart (we all occasionally forget the charger is connected!).I've hunted around on the CPC/Farnell site and a couple of otherplaces but haven't found anything really suitable. The best I'vefound so far are the DIN loudspeaker connectors but I'm not reallyconvinced that they can carry the current.

Mar 09, 2007 22 Replies

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Owain 19 years ago

Depends what current's coming out. For your application I'd suggest something fairly well shrouded to prevent inadvertent shorts/sparks.

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Ian White 19 years ago

The Anderson connectors are quite well shrouded, and in the small housings (which is all the OP needs) the contacts cannot be touched without some kind of probe.

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tinnews 19 years ago

One shouldn't be making/breaking a live current carrying connection with the connectors anyway. I always make the connections before turning the charger on (or break them after turning it off).

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