10 AH Homemade Kobalt Battery

[eightyseven]

A monstrosity, but this would be kind of cool for stationary tools like lights or the Ridgid heater. This guy has some interesting videos in general.

 

 

[JimboS1ice]

That thing is massive!


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[rbacon705]

Imaging using that thing overhead all day!

[aabee]

And it would only cost $100, since the 2.0 batteries are $20 a piece. I'm gun-shy on attempting this myself since I have no soldering experience, but if I were to start off experimenting I'd try combining the $10 1.5 amp batteries. Kobalt's 24v stuff is awesome btw.

 

His videos are indeed really cool overall.

[BMack37]

6 minutes ago, aabee said:

And it would only cost $100, since the 2.0 batteries are $20 a piece. I'm gun-shy on attempting this myself since I have no soldering experience, but if I were to start off experimenting I'd try combining the $10 1.5 amp batteries. Kobalt's 24v stuff is awesome btw.

 

His videos are indeed really cool overall.

 

It's not that difficult, just make sure to NOT use lead-free solder and get some flux paste. Lead-free solder is not necessary and it has a higher melting point. You'd want flux core solder, 60/40 or 63/37.

[Cr8ondt]

Not gunna lie I've pondered doing this with some random cells I have into a black top Dewalt battery... Only thing that's stopped me is the randomness of the cells... Though I have considered grabbing a pile of Kobalts to do this too.

[pancing]

On 7/6/2017 at 11:57 AM, Cr8ondt said:

Not gunna lie I've pondered doing this with some random cells I have into a black top Dewalt battery... Only thing that's stopped me is the randomness of the cells... Though I have considered grabbing a pile of Kobalts to do this too.

don't use random cells to do this with, get new cells of the same type, preferrably Exactly the same brand and and model.

[Jronman]

On 7/6/2017 at 6:50 AM, rbacon705 said:

Imaging using that thing overhead all day!

it would last all week