lipo and charger help PLEASE
12-14-2007, 08:08 PM
#1
lipo and charger help PLEASE
i have the duratrax ice charger and team orion lipo battery...
i charged it up 2 days ago and it still had pretty good life left... i go to charge it tonight and the charger says low imput voltage... i read the manual... it says the charger may be wrong or the battery may something or nother... i thought it was the battery i was usuing to charge it but then i tried my truck battery and it still said the same thing... what can i do to get my lipo charged... i dont really have the money to buy a new battery but i wanna get the problem solved... can any one please help me...
i charged it up 2 days ago and it still had pretty good life left... i go to charge it tonight and the charger says low imput voltage... i read the manual... it says the charger may be wrong or the battery may something or nother... i thought it was the battery i was usuing to charge it but then i tried my truck battery and it still said the same thing... what can i do to get my lipo charged... i dont really have the money to buy a new battery but i wanna get the problem solved... can any one please help me...
12-18-2007, 02:12 AM
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i have the duratrax ice charger and team orion lipo battery...
i charged it up 2 days ago and it still had pretty good life left... i go to charge it tonight and the charger says low imput voltage... i read the manual... it says the charger may be wrong or the battery may something or nother... i thought it was the battery i was usuing to charge it but then i tried my truck battery and it still said the same thing... what can i do to get my lipo charged... i dont really have the money to buy a new battery but i wanna get the problem solved... can any one please help me...
i charged it up 2 days ago and it still had pretty good life left... i go to charge it tonight and the charger says low imput voltage... i read the manual... it says the charger may be wrong or the battery may something or nother... i thought it was the battery i was usuing to charge it but then i tried my truck battery and it still said the same thing... what can i do to get my lipo charged... i dont really have the money to buy a new battery but i wanna get the problem solved... can any one please help me...
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12-19-2007, 02:06 PM
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Low input voltage reading on your ICE charger has nothing to do with the LiPo battery being charged.
It means that the power source you're using has fallen below 11.3 volts and your ICE charger can't pull enough power from it to charge a battery. We had this problem when trying to power our ICE off of a marine battery that had run partly low. I switched to a 13A DC power supply that consistently outputs 12.4 V and it runs two of them non-stop both charging at 6A.
Although not recommended by Duratrax, you can put a trickle charger on your truck battery to keep it over 12V while your ICE is drawing from it.
It means that the power source you're using has fallen below 11.3 volts and your ICE charger can't pull enough power from it to charge a battery. We had this problem when trying to power our ICE off of a marine battery that had run partly low. I switched to a 13A DC power supply that consistently outputs 12.4 V and it runs two of them non-stop both charging at 6A.
Although not recommended by Duratrax, you can put a trickle charger on your truck battery to keep it over 12V while your ICE is drawing from it.
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