I would love to hear what benefits silicone has over the hot glue. Or at least the negative aspects of the hot glue @Quezacotl
Due to vibrations, it just goes off, since itās not flexible at all. Iām not saying itās bad for everything, but in rush, i tend to use it more and be sorry afterwards.
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Iām no expert on silicones. Iām just using some random that they use on cars also.
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Good enough. Iām liking this thread itās giving me a lot of new things to search and read up on
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look for Sikaflex.
The strongest sealing and glueing paste I have ever seen 
but, donāt forget to wear glovesā¦it will stay days on your handsā¦
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Could be another one here chaps. Well named thread this. Hot glue works on connectors etc because you can remove it at a push and it is an insulator. Silicon (the name should give it away really) sealant is a great insulator also but only when its cured when in liquid or gel form apparently it conducts electricity so if using to glue connectors in, I wouldānt. Most release acetic acid too when curing which eats copper brass etc so always use a neutral cure product or say goodbye to small electronic connections down the line. Oh and its really messy shit. Sika is the best waterproofing agent around for holes and stuff but even messier.
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really good to know, I use a hot glue that is quite rubbery - it seems to hold up ok
superglue, hot glue all are fine for gluing connectors in but wet silicon be careful of plus its a bitch to get off once cured. Its the acid thing thatās a worry because its not common knowledge.
If it aināt broke donāt fix it
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Nickel strip. Im going to build a 10s6p pack and I thought in my mind āman youāre not going to use more than 3 meters of nickel strip on that shit dudeā. Well turns out I actually need 11 meters to build the pack. Before you order nickel strip do the math. And just to be on the safe side order 2 more meters than you need.
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Pictures? 10 character
Pictures of the pack? I havenāt started on the pack yet but I got a diagram of it.
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That pack is not going to work connected like that. Youāve got a 0S3P pack there, not 10S
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Grass green lines are 10mm X 0.15mm nickel strip. The dark green lines is also nickel strip but itās making it a 1s6p pack. Blue lines are also nickel strip that connects the parallel packs into series. Red lines are 10 awg that does the same.
Check your polarity From your second pack you go ++ ist again parallel. Itās the same with all rows in your drawing
More easy to say your red lines also parallel connections
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Iāve made orange boxes that shows the parallel packs. + is connected to + and - is connected to -. The dark green lines connect the pack into a 1s6p.
But the red lines are fucked. Didnāt see that before. Thanks!
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So then the red lines, the pack +, and the pack - connections are incorrect.
But even if you corrected them, that much complexity will lead to fast failure under heavy vibration.
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Im not going to build the pack like that. The diagram just shows the connections. Itās going to be double stacked and itās hard to show that in 2D. Iāll post a picture laterā¦
So then you would connect it this way in a 10S6P configuration ā but again, this will last no longer than a stinky fart under heavy vibrations.
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