More out of the Watt's Up WattMeter

[randomtask]

The Watt's Up watt meter is already a very useful tool to have around to check the amps drawn in a motor setup, the overall voltage of the battery and so on.

I was thinking that I may have to get myself a separate voltmeter to check the voltage of individual lipo cells cos the watt meter only had deans connectors. But instead, I rummaged through my toolbox and found a female dean connector and those "needles" that you find with the voltmeter. So I started cracking. I'll use the "needles" to check voltages of battery packs with non-deans connectors.

My set up:
1. Soldering Iron
2. Soldering Flux
3. "Needles" (if someone has the correct name for it please fill in, thanks )
4. Heat shrink tubing
5. Clamp
6. Watt's Up Watt Meter (or any other brands of the same sort)

[randomtask]

Next step I removed the plugs to reveal the wires to be soldered on to the deans.

[HZM]

cool man .. quick quick... Try "Test Probe" instead of needles

[randomtask]

Here's the pics

[randomtask]

Thanks Mike... test probe.... will have that word embedded in my vocabluary book.

[randomtask]

Lastly, solder the wires to the deans and we're good to go.

I've tried on my batteries and nothing went "poof". That's a good sign I reckon. It works!!! I managed to check the voltage on my "non-deans" RX pack and also managed to check individual cells on the lipo pack with the test probe.

I'd thought I just share what little ideas I have so that we can save as much as possible... so that we can spend it on getting more planes or helis. A very simple mod which takes less than 10 minutes but will go a long way in preserving our very expensive batt packs.

Happy Landings Everyone.

Cheers
RandomTask

[HZM]

Pai Seh .... Just manage to confirm they called it Test Leads





Cheers

Mike

[pilot_bear]

Nice

[BuRR06]

Any Shops selling this watts up watt meter here in singapore?

[Mad Armour]

Any Shops selling this watts up watt meter here in singapore?

Think SHS sells a Tahmazo version. Dunno how much, though.

[randomtask]

Yeah, SHS sells the Tahmazo meter at around $70 I think (not so sure). It's a decent meter able to do everything the Watt's Up meter can do. The only Plus that the watt meter has over the Tahmazo one is that it can be powered by an Rx pack so there is less down time when measuring voltages.

Cheers
RandomTask

[Frank]

Yeah, SHS sells the Tahmazo meter at around $70 I think (not so sure). It's a decent meter able to do everything the Watt's Up meter can do. The only Plus that the watt meter has over the Tahmazo one is that it can be powered by an Rx pack so there is less down time when measuring voltages.

Cheers
RandomTask

the other plus is the watts up holds max and min values while the tamazo do not

[Adrianli]

the other plus is the watts up holds max and min values while the tamazo do not

Can give me the website to purchase it???

[VinCopter]

Can give me the website to purchase it???

Me keen also, can join you to share shipping cost.

[Mad Armour]

Can give me the website to purchase it???

Tower Hobbies!

Wanna do a group buy? There's a $25 off on purchase >$149 now. So 3 meters is just sui sui. Shipping is $13.25. Total will be $161.97 + $13.25 - $25 = $150.22. That will be about $50.10 each. Nett discount