Losi 600mah Lipo balancing tap question

[Locked Up]

Is the tap on the little Losi battery the same as a Thunder Power?


I picked up one of these batteries and am wanting to know what balance board to use with my Hyperion:
http://holmeshobbies.com/product.php?productid=160&cat=7&page=1


The end looks a lot like a Thunder Power tap I saw a closeup of .... but I am hoping someone can clear it all up for me.


Thanks

 

[nielsm]

Not Thunder Power

I just got this battery too & have the Venom charger & it's LiPo balance block which has ThunderPower/FlightPower connectors. The Losi doesn't fit on it.

 

[nielsm]

Correction: Maybe ThunderPower

It looks like the balancer that comes with the Venom & the aftermarket aren't the same, so my previous post may be wrong:

http://forum.losi.com/showthread.php?t=306

 

[Nabil]

It looks like the balancer that comes with the Venom & the aftermarket aren't the same, so my previous post may be wrong:

http://forum.losi.com/showthread.php?t=306

the venom is an align balance tap.

 

[team3six]

here is a list of all the batteries in the JST-X balance tap to help you. its also on my website in the electronics 101 page.

Align JST XH
EAC124
EAC134
EAC144
EAC154

3e Models
ABF
Air Thunder
Align
Beyonder Power
BP
Common Sense RC V1(rev Polarity)
Common Sense RC V2
DN Power (rev Polarity)
Dualsky
Dynam
EC Power
E-Flight
eFuel
Electric Power
Electrifly
Energy EC
Esky
E-Watts
Exceed RC Fusion
Fully Max
Gadex
GE Power
G-Force
Grayson Power
Hextronic
Hi Models
Hobby City
Hobby Loong
Hurricane Flight Systems
HXT
Imax
Kong Power - Old
Lightning Power 2S-5S
Loong Max
MaxForce
Mega Power
Mojo
Mystery
Nine Eagles
Park Zone
PolyNoOne
PowerEdge
PowerSource
Protek
Reedy Power
Rhino
SMC
Tenergy (Rev Polarity) -
Old
Top Racing
Tower Hobbies
Trinity
Turborix
Vampower - New
Venom
WOW RC
X-Caliber
Zippy

 

[Locked Up]

I didn't see Losi in there. Do you have a listing for that?

 

[Sneed]

I've been running my 600's for several months w/o balancing them. No signs of problems. But not sure on the tab, that's mostly why I haven't balanced them. Ha.

 

[nielsm]

here is a list of all the batteries in the JST-X balance tap to help you. its also on my website in the electronics 101 page.

Thanks, very helpful, but not sure if even on your site I could find the Losi connector. I'd read in the Losi forum that the Thunderpower was compatible based on pin layout, but the plug itself didn't line up. Do you have any insight?

 

[rcjunky3]

i had previously contacted 2 battery companies on this site and losi about this one of a kind special plug. they all told me the same thing nobody makes an adapter to fit the losi taps only losi products. so you basically have to have a losi balancer just for your losi packs

 

[team3six]

lol, figures. I mean lately alot of battery companies have been going to the JST-X. It appears this to me would be a way to get lOSI to purchase thier chargers. If this is true.

 

[team3six]

Thanks, very helpful, but not sure if even on your site I could find the Losi connector. I'd read in the Losi forum that the Thunderpower was compatible based on pin layout, but the plug itself didn't line up. Do you have any insight?

that might be the case if that is true. I honestly couldnt tell you as I have never run Losi batteries. I generally have purchased other brands of batteries and now recently am selling another brand.

 

[Top_Ramen]

Nevermind. Just seen a better pic of the tap and it looks like the TP one. Maybe you can just change the balance plug to the align tap.

 

[mikegigabyte]

if this helps ran into the same problem, went to the hobby store and picked up some correct connectors for my balancer jack $1.50, then pulled the pins on the battery, and aftermarket jack and soldered new pins and pushed them back in the new connector, could of just extended the wires but I wanted a clean job. Now it can balance and use other connectors like the low battery buzzer as they all seem to use the wider plug then what the battery came with

 

[Biggons]

I solved this by getting a Blinky, fits about anything.

http://www.astroflight.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=34

 

[Black Demon]

i got the blinky too, do u use the adapter for the little battery?

 

[Drvnbeing]

I had to cut the tabs off of the balancing tap to make it work with my hyperion charger. Had two different tap connectors and neither one of them had a spot for the losi. Just cutting the tabs off the losi battery allowed it to fit and WORK in one of the 2s spots.

 

[IWantATurbo]

i use this one and it works fine!!!!
http://www.hobbycity.com/hobbycity/store/uh_viewItem.asp?idProduct=9732

 

[joe daigle jr]

iits a jst tap i lucked out and was able to use my heli charger which is a e-flite the balance port accepted it no prob