Soldering Voltage Taps

This page will instruct how to solder the voltage tap wires to the nickel strips going onto the modules. The instructions below are for 1 module.

1. Cut 6 pieces of 22 AWG wire to ~45cm or 1 and 1.2 feet.

2. Strp the end of the wires only on one side

3. Cut nickel into ~36mm strips, do this 5 times

4. Make indentations on the nickel strips to fit the cells using the unifinished blue module with some cells inside.

   1. Note: this is not a dangerous amount of voltage/ current to cause harm but be careful of sliding the nickel strips below the intrusion of the top terminal of a cell as you may cause a shoulder short between the positive terminal and the negative part of the cell (which is located below the plastic grey covering of the cell). Feel free to use the taped-up bolts pictured below to do the job if you feel uncomfortable. (should be in the module-making box labelled DONNA MODULE MAKING, OCT 2023)

      

5. Fray the ends of the wires as shown to solder onto the voltage taps

   

6. 4 voltage taps will have 1 wire, while 1 nickel strip will have 2 wires attached

   1. To Solder :

      1. Add flux to the top of the nickel surface

         

      2. Create a small pool of solder on the nickel strip

         

      3. Solder the frayed wire onto the nickel strip

         

The final result should look as follows, note the nickel strip with 2 wires:

Once completed, set aside in specific box.