Super overcomplicated, overengineered battery holder...

... for those who really have some time on their hands!

The recent rash of great battery-holder Instructables has inspired me to share my own method. This requires a few specialized tools and dexterity, but I'm sure there are plenty of Instructabler's out there with the right stuff.

*There's a bunch of words in this Instructable, but you can probably just follow along with the pictures. :)

Step 1 Tools and materials

The materials:

double sided copper clad board
3mm PVC foam board
bit of wire
solder

THE TOOLS:

pencil
soldering iron
jigsaw
sandpaper
rotary engraving tool
heat gun
glue gun

Comments

[sandeepvazrapu2012]

5654

[sageserver]

can you show how to make the battery holder for the lithium sell phone batteries. cool and simple instructables. what i usualy do is take a battery pack from toys to hood the batteries but theres lots of machine work to make them the right size.

[klee27x]

It's just a couple leads from a power diode that I bent and soldered to some PCB. As per usual, I just scored a small tab around the positive lead to isolate it, and the rest is ground plane. That's about it. The hard part is soldering it just right. I had to mess with the leads a few times to get it to fit.

[Bigev]

I fail to see how this is overcomplicated or over engineered. It's a remarkably easy way to make a great battery holder that seems to be very effective. 5*

[klee27x]

Ok, maybe I was being a little bit of a drama queen. In my defense, I figured it was complicated in the sense that most people won't have all the tools, materials, and patience(?) to bother trying this. Thanks for restoring my faith in the general eptitude of my fellow Instructaholics, and for the rating! I'd consider tweaking the title, but then conadia and recon's comments would no longer make sense. :)

[Bigev]

Nah, leave the title. Some instructaholics may not be as advanced as us! XD

[alex-sharetskiy]

awesome!

[Clayton H.]

now encasing it all in clear acrylic with a little led light to tell you it still works is being overcomplicated.

[recon506]

Permanently encasing it in a 7071 T65 TIG Welded Aluminum Enclosure, electroplated with nickel and with a dedicated circuit telling you the temperature of the cell displayed on an LCD - that is being overcomplicated. All else is child's play.