Difficult Battery Connectors

[adciv]

Check the pins in the connectors. Bent and warped pins are harder to disconnect. We have a few like this in our inventory and I'm thinking about cutting them off and crimping on new pins.

[ILAMtitan]

Anderson's use spring tension to push two flat contacts together. This ensures that you have a solid connection which can carry the requisite current and not fail on you. As a result, it takes about 15lbs of force to pull them apart. A solution to make it a bit easier is to mount the robot side of you connector to a rigid surface, not just leave it dangling.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

An easy way to separate these connectors is to grasp one side in each hand and bend the connection in the plane of the connector such that one terminal pulls apart before the other terminal. This gives you half the force to separate that both contacts together. It will take a little practice but it does work.
Another method is to take a piece of 1/8" nylon rope (or larger) and thread and tie it through the open holes in the connector. This will give a larger pulling area for smaller hands. This method is often employed in UPS batteries that use the same series of connector.
As pointed out by Bart above, the spring tension and pin alignment is part of the mechanism that allows these connectors to meet current and series resistance specs. Do not make changes in either. Local heating, connector damage and melted components may result. The inspection staff at events will send me a few pictures of connectors that are damaged in this way every year.

[indieFan]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

An easy way to separate these connectors is to grasp one side in each hand and bend the connection in the plane of the connector such that one terminal pulls apart before the other terminal. This gives you half the force to separate that both contacts together. It will take a little practice but it does work.

I'm trying to visualize this and think it's the following:

1. Grip one side in each hand.
2. Hold wide flat of Anderson parallel to floor.
3. Rotate hands toward or away from stomach (for reference) keeping wide flat of Anderson parallel to the floor.

Is this correct?

[GeeTwo]

Originally Posted by indieFan

I'm trying to visualize this and think it's the following:

1. Grip one side in each hand.
2. Hold wide flat of Anderson parallel to floor.
3. Rotate hands toward or away from stomach (for reference) keeping wide flat of Anderson parallel to the floor.

Is this correct?

Yes, this is how we separate them. It will disengage one contact at a time. Of course, you should be pulling the two housings apart continuously as you do this.

[Knufire]

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