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03-26-2010, 06:41 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Mar 2010 Location: Hampton
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|  charging lipo
what would happen if I used a standard stick pack charger on a lipo battery. i have a venom lipo balance charger but it is so slow. just trying to get a faster charge maybe plug in both at the same time. using it on 5000 2s packs
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03-26-2010, 06:49 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Nassau, NY
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Theres a reason that the proper charger is slow... you may have a cell that doesnt hold charge as well as the others... in other words... if you charge it with the other charger I hope you have good house insurance for fires...
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03-26-2010, 06:50 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2005 Location: Anchorage, Alaska
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If we could charge lipo batteries on a "regular" charger, everyone would be doing it. Go ahead and give it a shot. Make sure to have a fire extinguisher handy. Most battery configurations guys are using yield about an hour of runtime. It takes about an hour to charge a battery. Get two batteries and problem solved; charge one while you're using the other. This goes for NiMH/NiCd as well as Lipo. Those 15-minute egg-timer chargers just ruin batteries anyway... |
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03-26-2010, 07:03 PM
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my venom charger took 16 hrs to charge the 5000 2s. i realize that i could just buy another charger just trying to save a little cash thats why I asked first. thanks for saving the fire
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03-26-2010, 07:16 PM
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| TEAM MODERATOR   Join Date: May 2004 Location: Tennessee
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 Definitely something wrong with the charger or the cells. What kinda cells are they?I know I've got some 2200 PolyRC 3 cells I got from Holmes Hobbies. On my Hyperion charger,bout 30 minutes,they are peaked and ready. The 1300's I got from Holmes,bout 20 minutes. The ONLY time I've used a NiMH/NiCd cycle for lipo's,is if they go below 3 volts per cell. Just hit them on the NiMH setting for a few seconds and it bumps them up to 3 volts per cell,then switch over the correct lipo setting. | |
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03-26-2010, 07:36 PM
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G Force China Batt. the odd thing is that the venom charger only plugs into the balance port nothing into the deans connecter. is that why it takes so long. I have been using it on my crawler lipos but it only takes about two hrs to charge a 1300 3s. that i could live with.
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03-26-2010, 07:38 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Nassau, NY
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Which Venom charger...
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03-26-2010, 07:46 PM
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03-26-2010, 07:52 PM
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there is nothing to plug into. all that is there is a little box that you can plug a 2s or a 3s into thats it. the specs on the back say. Input 10.0 - 15.0v DC Output 0.8A Li-polymer / Li-on. I realize that i get what i pay for it was only like $35 but it gets the job done later than sooner
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03-26-2010, 08:04 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Nassau, NY
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Yeah just looked it up... its basically just a trickle charger charging through the batteries balance connector... AMain says its .75a... considering at 1C you should be charging at 5a thats why it takes so long...
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