Model Forum / Radio Controlled / Air Models / June 2004

On 6/18/2004 9:13 AM Ted shuffled out of his cave and grunted these
great (and sometimes not so great) words of knowledge:

Just solder some metal tabs to banana jacks.  Plug the jack into the ps
and clamp the battery clamps to the tabs.  The other possibility is to
solder some brass tube to banana jacks.  Which one you use will depend
on the width of your clamps for the battery terminals.

I have an Astroflight charger that I did the tube bit width.  The clamps
on this charger are alligator clip type - narrow.

Hope this helps.

I went to the auto parts store and bought auto plugs. I made a set for my
car and set for a power supply and for the clips that come with the Triton.
Can you solder?  Let me know if you want details.
mk

Yeah, banana plugs without the plastic shields.
A better solution would be to go to Radio Shack and get those polarized
radio plugs Catalog #: 270-026. Cut about 6" of the end of the wire with the
terminal clips. Make another section of lead with the banana clips. Put one
of those radio plugs on the end of each of those leads and the end of the
power lead of the charger making sure to match up the polarity correctly.
Now you have the best of both worlds and can use the charger off a battery
AND a power supply. I put  these on all my DC chargers, battery fans, etc
and can power em with pretty much anything.

Just in case somebody wants Triton and doesn't have one yet, they're
about as cheap as they come now --

If you buy it at this link --

  http://www.towerhobbies.com/products/greatplanes/gpmm3150r.html

for $130, you get a $10 Tower Hobbies gift certificate, and a
mail-in-rebate form worth $15 in cash or $30 in Great
Planes/Futaba/OS/Hobbico/etc merchandise.  (If you don't use that
link, you won't get told about the Rebate, and won't get the gift
certificate.)

If you enter the 011B1 code, you'll get $20 off a $150 order.  If
you're already a Tower Club member, you'll get free shipping once you
hit that $150 figure.

So, you buy the Triton, and buy $20 of other stuff,  let's say $25
worth of other stuff.  So your total will be $155 - $20, or $135, and
you'll get either $15 or $30 back, and a $10 gift certificate for your
next Tower order.

Struck me as a good enough deal to go ahead and get myself a second
Triton :)

(and no, I don't work for Tower Hobbies or Great Planes or anybody
else involved here.)

Mark, I've had the same 'issue' and most banana plugs we use here have two
holes in the back of the case - one for the wire to go through and be
soldered to the terminal itself to carry the current and the other to allow
another banana plug to be 'piggy backed' onto the first.  Just get a bit of
brass tube - or anything conductive - that will fit in the 'piggy back' hole
and you can connect the Triton alligator clips to the 'post' that now sticks
out from the back of the banana plug which is connected to your power supply
sockets.  Cheers from Oz.