ovalosi

iTrader: (55)

Anyone have any experience with this charger? I am new to lipo and this is the charger I just purchased.It will be used for 4s packs.Just curious as to how good it will be as I know nothing about balancing/charging lipo. LMK

BLbound

iTrader: (27)

I have a good friend who runs electric 1/8 and has bought 2 of those chargers...he says he can't find a reason to have any other chargers...he loves them! So I'm guessing you made a good choice

Dave H

It's a fine charger for 2s packs, but generally underpowered for 4s packs. It's limited to 4 amps for 3s and 4s packs. It will charge them fine, just a little slower than typical, of course depending on your exact pack capacity. Seems to balance fine, you just need the correct connections like with all lipo chargers.

ovalosi

iTrader: (55)

Well as for a battery the car I bought has a 6500 4s maxamps,and from my understanding that battery can be charged at 6.5 amps(is this correct?)and the charger is only 4 amps max on 4 s lipo.So I figured it might be a little slow on the 4s pack.I am intially looking to do the 2s+2s setup for a better balanced chassis.I intially chose this charger as I was on a budget and from what I could find this was one of the nicer ones in my budget and what I was looking for in a charger(nimh/nicad/lipo).

Dave H

You are correct on the 6.5 amp charge rate for your 6500mah battery. Sounds like you already understood the power limits. That said I think you will be happy, it's been a good charger at a quite reasonable price in my experience.

Cheers

AndyMoore

iTrader: (64)

I really like my Clubman, it does everything I need it to, in addition to balancing.

JR007

+1. I love mine, and it's half the price of any other good charger out there. It does my NiCd, NiMH, and Lipo, all great

ovalosi

iTrader: (55)

Seriously,I knew this charger might be a little slow,but d@mn,is it me or is this charger going to take 5 or 6 hours to charge my maxamps 6500 4s?????? ANYONE KNOW

greenracing

iTrader: (1)

if you put the balancer and the battery was sitting for a while then yes it will take a while!!, when i first plugged a nib venom 5000 battery to my hyperion it was 2 hours to be fully charge and balanced, from there it was 22-25 mins, 30 max at 5.0A

Dave H

Brain dump alert! I thought the Orion Clubman Lipo was a 50 watt charger, this is not correct.

It can charge a 4s lipo at up to 4 amps. Meaning it is capable of about 67 watts for a 4s.
Capable of 6 amps for a 1s or 2s. Up to 4 amps for a 3s or 4s.

Per published specs, supported by my tests. So it’s a slightly better value than I thought.

My apologies for posting erroneous baloney. I’ll attempt to correct my previous post.