Building Tip - DC Jacks

[haveyouseenhim]

Oh, and Mike--

I CAN shoot.  Ready for that duel?

MC

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzcgyk62cHU       

[nocentelli]

Are you using solid or stranded wire?  I use 24ga stranded and never have problems with wires breaking. I do have problems if I use solid.

I think the issue is with the very thin stranded wire that is common on battery snaps.

[italianguy63]

Duck--

Yeah, I do exactly that technique-- I tin it, bend it back on itself, and cover it in shrink.

The wires are just thin and crappy.  Stranded.  I have about 4 different kinds of snaps-- all crappy.  What I did here is time consuming, but it does add alot of strength/durability.  It's great if you have the space.  Would not work so well in a 1590A.

[nosamiam]

Somewhere there's a tutorial for making your own battery snaps by supplying your own heavier gauge wire, tearing apart dead batteries and using the ends, and using a hot glue gun to make it all hold together. I've used this method and it works exceptionally well, even if it looks a little ugly. The only hard part is soldering the wires to the battery snap terminals without melting the plastic that the terminals are embedded in.

[nosamiam]

This:

http://hammer.ampage.org/files/DIY-snaps.pdf