wall charger fubar
Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2004 10:17 am
I did the wall charger mod, and it turned out great! Thanks to everyone that contributed on that one.
Now to my problem.....
I have three different types of charger pads for my cars, and I wanted them to all be used with the wall charger. So I figured it would be easy enough to put a couple more splices into the wire and route them to two newly added charging pads. The second pad I got installed instantly fried two batteries(yes, I tried it twice), and made the motor stutter while charging. I replaced the batteries, and the cars seem to be ok-whew.
I would like to know what went wrong, so if anyone could offer some advice I sure would appreciate it.
I took the leads from the charger pcb, and spliced them with contact wire effectively making three 'branches' The guage of the branch wire is at least double that of what had been previously attached to the pad contacts. All of my pos and negs were correct, and I can't see anything physically that is wrong.
Is it the guage of the wire? Is it because I used contact wire and not braided? Is it because I don't know anything about electronics and the branches create some problem with the current? Could it be a physical problem with the splicing layout?
Thanks in advance to any suggestions.
Now to my problem.....
I have three different types of charger pads for my cars, and I wanted them to all be used with the wall charger. So I figured it would be easy enough to put a couple more splices into the wire and route them to two newly added charging pads. The second pad I got installed instantly fried two batteries(yes, I tried it twice), and made the motor stutter while charging. I replaced the batteries, and the cars seem to be ok-whew.
I would like to know what went wrong, so if anyone could offer some advice I sure would appreciate it.
I took the leads from the charger pcb, and spliced them with contact wire effectively making three 'branches' The guage of the branch wire is at least double that of what had been previously attached to the pad contacts. All of my pos and negs were correct, and I can't see anything physically that is wrong.
Is it the guage of the wire? Is it because I used contact wire and not braided? Is it because I don't know anything about electronics and the branches create some problem with the current? Could it be a physical problem with the splicing layout?
Thanks in advance to any suggestions.