TigeRyan

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Pat,

I have an FK'04 so I have a jumper wire, but to help make the cells sit better for my test pack I removed the jumper wire so I have two 3 cell packs essentially. I cleaned the contacts and made sure the solder joints have a good contact area. So my packs are no different then a 6 cell pack at this point. The pack I am testing I put 1000 seconds of charge into it to be sure I had a good test bed.

Thanks for the help,
John

Pat Clark

Ok if you have "2" 3 cell packs re-install your jumper wire or a battey bar... The unit will only work if all 6 cells are connected..(or 4 for a 4cell pack)

When you put your pack into the unit make sure that there are 3 battery bars closest to the top (next to were is says DPD on the unit) and 2 bars along the bottom (next to the display) your tabs for soldering on your wires will be closest to the display as well.... You may have to install your pack so the tabs for the wires are facing down in the unit... Hope this helps...

TigeRyan

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Warming up the iron and will let you know how it goes in a few minutes...

ptjonesus

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I got my's today it was easy to use it works well.

maxepower

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It's a little frustrating trying to discharge old practice packs. Still getting the error to check connection or only showing 4 cells instead of six.! Cleaning the battery posts helps sometimes but not always! Newer cells, no problem, just struggling with the older packs!
Any suggestions?

TigeRyan

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What I figured out was that your solder on the ends of the cells needs to be nice and shiney, so if you it dirty or a bit corroded, use a hot iron to liquify the solder and clean it up...Every pack I have done that to so far has gone in much easier....

Still Bill

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I wouldn't apply heat to the ends of the cells any more than necessary.

Just clean the ends up with motor spray and a rag.

ptjonesus

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you can use deoxit or rail zap these are used to remove oxidaion on any electronic surface. I have use my's to discharge five 6 cell pack and so far it is working very well.

dr_hfuhuhurr

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I've not been a Trinity fan for some time. This discharger has REALLY impressed me. I like the AA batteries, I agree with whoever said it here, one less set of wires streaming across the table. I like the display, Like the features. Great little unit!

ptjonesus

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So far I have checked eight battery packs three of the eight were bad some the cell had voltage but had loss capacity with this I would have never known

lonepalm4

i like it so far too, but can't figure out why on one discharge, it looks like a cell is dead, then the next time, a different cell looks like is has puked (by runtime) but the other cells are all fine. this has happened on all my packs. wierd. otherwise, it works very well.

ghuber

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The Trinity DPD is the real deal. Great discharger for the price.

Here are the numbers off a new 1.206 @ 35 IB3800 pack:

11 resistance
463 runtime
7.36 average voltage
3915 mah

BSchorr

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So that was a fully charged pack? How long did it take?

Can you do a test to see how long it takes to discharge at teh 30amp pulse after a 5 minute race? I usualy discharge about 1500 out of my IB3800's, but i was wondering how long it would take for the DPD to do it in the 30 amp mode

ghuber

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A fully charged IB3800 takes me like 1:15 minutes or so to discharge.

I have yet to try, but I estimate it would take about 20 minutes for a pack after racing.

BSchorr

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OK, when your in the 5 amp mod, does it tell you how many mah's it has taken out of the pack then? If you could see, see how long it takes to do 1400mah. Im strapped for time as it is racing. Is it better to use the DPD after you race for the day and store your packs at 5.4, then do the 5 amp lnear tray to .7 like EA said or to do the 3 amp mode when you come back the next week to race?