Best way 2 make a Homemade Discharger?
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might think about picking it up used , pretty good deals with people going lipo, ray
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you can get 4 - 1ohm 10w resistors from radioshack, and hook them up in parralel. it will have a discharge current of about 20-30 amps depending on your battery. have some sort of a way to cool it down, or at least something none-flamable to set it on, as it gets VERY hot.
or you could hook up a gazilion lightbulbs ( tailight ones ) in series, and get 5-10 amps discharge. if you go with bulbs, get sunglasses!
cheers!
or you could hook up a gazilion lightbulbs ( tailight ones ) in series, and get 5-10 amps discharge. if you go with bulbs, get sunglasses!
cheers!
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The bulbs you need are 1157's I believe, 10 bubls give you 20 amps of discharge.
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12 volt 50w ceiling lamps. 5 gives 20 amp discharge. (roughly. we have a test rig for capacity checking car batteries that uses a set of these) you have to have a volt meter attatched to stop when the batteries reach 1 volt or whatever. (any lower and the accuracy of the thing means you risk killing the cells)
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If you build one , make sure you buy a voltage cut off switch, or you will dead short your battery's . when I first built mine, I didn't know about the cut off and I killed a brand new battery .
I also have two Integy equalizing trays for sale in the for sale forums.
Check it out , http://www.rctech.net/forum/showthread.php?t=183840
If you were to buy one or both of the equalizer trays, I would throw in
the light bulb discharger with cut-off switch for Free .
PM me if your interested.
Thanks Mike.
I also have two Integy equalizing trays for sale in the for sale forums.
Check it out , http://www.rctech.net/forum/showthread.php?t=183840
If you were to buy one or both of the equalizer trays, I would throw in
the light bulb discharger with cut-off switch for Free .
PM me if your interested.
Thanks Mike.
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