Looking for single place for these parts...

[BrianG]

Since I'm having no luck selling my TP balancer (and I refuse to sell at that thieving ebay place), I decided to make it into a general purpose balancer. But I can't seem to find a single place that has both of the items I need. I hate spending $5 for shipping for a $1 part, times two. Anyway, the following is what I need:

1: Thunderpower 6-pin (5s) balance connector/pigtail that will plug into a Thunderpower balancer. These would be the same connectors as you would find on the battery pack. Would prefer to have wire pigtails already attached.

2: Snappable header pins, like this. Would prefer the right angle style, but straight would be fine too.

TIA!

[JThiessen]

I'd try cheapbatterypacks.com - they have a pretty good selection of building supplies.

[Arct1k]

allerc.com

[ksb51rl]

Possibly www.hobbydream.com, but they're on "holiday" until Oct. 6, and the website just says "debugging" at the moment.

[BrianG]

Well, the first two didn't have what I was looking for, and not sure about the last one until they come back. Thanks anyway guys!

[BrianG]

Just sent an email to TP to see if I can get the pigtails I want direct from them. Anything I've found online would require modification to the connector to work.

[OZ-RUSTLER]

How about http://www.rclipos.com/

[BrianG]

Well, I got the parts I was looking for. The only place I could get all the TP connectors I wanted was a place I do not want to do business with, so I went directly to TP. Paid a few more cents per cable, but that's ok. And then, I got the headers from allelectronics.com. To make the shipping cost worth it, I got a few extra goodies for future projects.

The whole purpose of this was to make 0.1" spacing balance tap adaptors, but use the TP210 balancer. This balancer has a 450mA balance rate, so balancing is done quicker. And, it seems to be the most accurate at determining actual imbalance.

Here are a few items I got:



And what I made with it:



Made a 6s balance adaptor and a 5s adaptor. I cut little squares out of the PCB, layed the header pins on it, and soldered them. Then it was a simple matter to solder the wires on the PCB as well. The PCB is not needed, but tends to help support/strengthen the pins. Also in the pic is a balance tap break-out board for experimenting, charging/discharging individual cells, etc.

[magman]

Slick...glad we have an electrical guru around here

[J57ltr]

Well It's a little late, but I actually stock those 40 pin headers. We use them to split into 10 pin headers for mounting another board on top of a motherboard we make.

Jeff