Hey guys, I have another question. I have the 7.2V Vex battery and I wanted to connect it to a breadboard to power some Vex motors which I’ve hooked up to an Arduino. So far, I haven’t been able to find a connector online to do this.
Does anyone of you know where I can get such connector please? Thanks in advance!
MarkO
January 27, 2013, 10:15pm
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deathrow:
Hey guys, I have another question. I have the 7.2V Vex battery and I wanted to connect it to a breadboard to power some Vex motors which I’ve hooked up to an Arduino. So far, I haven’t been able to find a connector online to do this.
Does anyone of you know where I can get such connector please? Thanks in advance!
Try your Local Radio-Shack, Part RC 7.2V Battery Pack Connector Repair Kit or RC 9.6V Battery Pack Connector Repair Kit . Or Hobby places carry replacement connectors for the same reasons…
Thanks for the quick reply, Marko! I actually don’t leave in the States, so no Radio-Shack here I’ll check in a Hobby shop here if they do have that.
MarkO
January 27, 2013, 10:46pm
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“leave”??
Sorry… You have no indication of where you are from… I assumed the US or Canada…
You might have an equivalent to Radio-Shack… A Store carrying Electronics and Parts…
They are a standard Molex Connectors. Hobby shops should have them for RC Cars…
They are small enough, someone here could mail you some…
jacko
January 27, 2013, 10:52pm
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deathrow:
Hey guys, I have another question. I have the 7.2V Vex battery and I wanted to connect it to a breadboard to power some Vex motors which I’ve hooked up to an Arduino. So far, I haven’t been able to find a connector online to do this.
Does anyone of you know where I can get such connector please? Thanks in advance!
One way which i did it which you could do in the mean time for testing is to quite simply have a cortex sitting next to the arduino and run power from the Red and White (i think? i cant remember properly) ports on the PWM output. Although only really useful for testing purposes…
Google “Tamiya battery connector”
Here is one example.
http://www.robotmarketplace.com/products/0-DLR1000.html
Quazar
January 27, 2013, 11:15pm
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I made such a cable, and it is a good idea to “double up” the breadboard pins so you get a stronger connection given the wire sizes.
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Cheers,
Dean
MarkO
January 27, 2013, 11:29pm
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In the U.K.??
These Battery Connectors look correct…
N.Z. ??
Having a hard time locating some… Hobby City has Battery Packs , but no mention of the Connectors themselves…
jacko
January 28, 2013, 12:37am
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Yes Hobby city has them, as well as Jaycar Im pretty sure should have them too, also for NZers Trademe
MarkO
January 28, 2013, 7:22am
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Jaycar looked promising, but I could not find any there either…
MarkO:
“leave”??
Sorry… You have no indication of where you are from… I assumed the US or Canada…
You might have an equivalent to Radio-Shack… A Store carrying Electronics and Parts…
They are a standard Molex Connectors. Hobby shops should have them for RC Cars…
They are small enough, someone here could mail you some…
Thanks for the links you posted! I was in a hurry earlier, so hence the grammatical mistake
I managed to get one of those cables at one of my local Hobby shops.
I got one of the suggested cables today and did it similarly do how Dean did his, and it’s working perfectly. Thanks!