I want to turn all my power tools and batteries a universal connector like USB-C. I have a 3d printerand skills so getting the manual interface is easy enough, but I don’t a lot about ports and tech. I’m learning fast, but I’m not quite there yet.
From what I understand, I’d need to put a female port on the battery which isn’t difficult and has been done plenty for charging.
I’d need to put a male plug on the tools to interface with it, and my initial research says I can’t just solder the power pins to the cables in the tool, I’ll need a circuit board that requests the 20v from the usb source? Is that doable? It looks like I can pick them up on AliExpress. But I need a qualified adult to verify that’s what I need to do.
From there, would I be able to cord them with this method or would I need to build a better usb charger port?
Is there a better port to use? Usb-C is nice and small so I can fit it in wherever I like, but can it handle tool use? Would it be better to do usb or something else?
I’m not sure if it’s region or my VPN, but all the grabcad links come back with errors. The terminal v2 is almost exactly what I’m looking for though. In that he’s 3d printing an adapter to connect the battery terminals to molex. I want to take it a step further, pop the top off the battery, desolder the proprietary terminals, solder in the molex and then print a male and female mounting track converter. Then pop open the tool and replace that side with molex too. Tgen I just put the parts together as a kit and any time I see a good deal on a tool I don’t have I can gran a bag of parts, hit print, and have it integrated into my battrr system in 30min.
Also I fucking love this openbox thing! When I went through electrician’s I though those boxes looked far too handy to just stuff wires into, and that’s going to give me so much to tinker with.
Right now grabcad isn’t working for me too , but when I accessed it a few days ago, it worked fine on my VPN. Hopefully itś not down for too long.
Keep us updated on how your project goes :)