Female XT60 to Female Deans Connector Adapter Cable

Hi all,
I want to charge 3s & 6s lipo batteries in parallel using a MPA board off a PL6. If its going to be cost effective, instead of buying them I would like to make up my own leads with Female XT60 to Female Deans but I don't know what size wire to use.
Please can you help me out.
Thanks
Dave

[r4nd0m]

10,12 or 14 awg will do just fine

[dbull46]

Thank you very much Sev
I can the wire for free so I just need to price up the connectors to see if its cheaper to do it myself or not.

Cheers
Dave

[Andy from Sandy]

The way the board works the current through a charge lead is to just a single pack. What you need to know is what is the capacity of the largest pack you intend to charge and then at what C rate you want as a maximum charge.

For example on a 5000mAh pack charged at 3C you would need leads capable of taking 15Amps.

See this table
American Wire Gauge table and AWG Electrical Current Load Limits with skin depth frequencies and wire strength

Look at the figures in the chassis wiring column.

If you only want to charge the same pack at 1C then you can get away quite thin wire but personally I would use nothing thinner than 16AWG.

[dbull46]

The way the board works the current through a charge lead is to just a single pack. What you need to know is what is the capacity of the largest pack you intend to charge and then at what C rate you want as a maximum charge.

For example on a 5000mAh pack charged at 3C you would need leads capable of taking 15Amps.

See this table
American Wire Gauge table and AWG Electrical Current Load Limits with skin depth frequencies and wire strength

Look at the figures in the chassis wiring column.

If you only want to charge the same pack at 1C then you can get away quite thin wire but personally I would use nothing thinner than 16AWG.

Thanks for the link to that table, very useful.
I think it's always the better (safer) option to go with the max capabilities of the charging setup so 16AWG will give me piece of mind.
Thanks again
Dave