Help eith shorty lipos
05-10-2018, 05:29 PM
#1
Help eith shorty lipos
Ive never had shorties before and i went to charge a 5mm port Reedy pack with 4mm to 5mm reducers on a 4mm charger lead and I get the connection error beeping. Cant figure out why. I have a seperate wire i was going to balance with but it not the one plugged in. Could the charger be stopping it from working because there is nothing in balance port?
05-10-2018, 10:13 PM
#4
Ive never had shorties before and i went to charge a 5mm port Reedy pack with 4mm to 5mm reducers on a 4mm charger lead and I get the connection error beeping. Cant figure out why. I have a seperate wire i was going to balance with but it not the one plugged in. Could the charger be stopping it from working because there is nothing in balance port?
05-11-2018, 01:18 AM
#5
more than likely the voltage of the shorty pack was below what you charger is set to start charge at..
05-11-2018, 06:13 AM
#6
I rarely use the balance connectors on my 2S packs... there are different settings on most chargers to allow you to charge without balancing the cells , on my charger I use "LIPO" mode and when I want to balance then I use "BAL" mode.
Most folks will recommend that you balance every charge, but I don't follow this strategy with the risk of potentially damaging one of the cells... for the packs that I've been racing with over the past 8+ years, I find they typically balance themselves out within 0.07V which is negligible. I am not recommending that anyone else take these same risks, just explaining the risks that I choose to take
Most folks will recommend that you balance every charge, but I don't follow this strategy with the risk of potentially damaging one of the cells... for the packs that I've been racing with over the past 8+ years, I find they typically balance themselves out within 0.07V which is negligible. I am not recommending that anyone else take these same risks, just explaining the risks that I choose to take
05-11-2018, 10:15 PM
#7
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I rarely use the balance connectors on my 2S packs... there are different settings on most chargers to allow you to charge without balancing the cells , on my charger I use "LIPO" mode and when I want to balance then I use "BAL" mode.
Most folks will recommend that you balance every charge, but I don't follow this strategy with the risk of potentially damaging one of the cells... for the packs that I've been racing with over the past 8+ years, I find they typically balance themselves out within 0.07V which is negligible. I am not recommending that anyone else take these same risks, just explaining the risks that I choose to take
Most folks will recommend that you balance every charge, but I don't follow this strategy with the risk of potentially damaging one of the cells... for the packs that I've been racing with over the past 8+ years, I find they typically balance themselves out within 0.07V which is negligible. I am not recommending that anyone else take these same risks, just explaining the risks that I choose to take
Why don't you use balance? Everyone does and it is just as fast.
05-12-2018, 03:42 PM
#8
I rarely use the balance connectors on my 2S packs... there are different settings on most chargers to allow you to charge without balancing the cells , on my charger I use "LIPO" mode and when I want to balance then I use "BAL" mode.
Most folks will recommend that you balance every charge, but I don't follow this strategy with the risk of potentially damaging one of the cells... for the packs that I've been racing with over the past 8+ years, I find they typically balance themselves out within 0.07V which is negligible. I am not recommending that anyone else take these same risks, just explaining the risks that I choose to take
Most folks will recommend that you balance every charge, but I don't follow this strategy with the risk of potentially damaging one of the cells... for the packs that I've been racing with over the past 8+ years, I find they typically balance themselves out within 0.07V which is negligible. I am not recommending that anyone else take these same risks, just explaining the risks that I choose to take
05-12-2018, 08:59 PM
#9
Not everyone balances at all the clubs in my area... and balancing definitely takes longer, I've had some charge cycles take as much as 10-15 min longer when balancing 
Most folks will have at least 2 packs per car... and for me that wasn't practical years ago when I ran as many as 10 classes... I basically had only 1 pack per car and generally charge my packs in my cars to save time when running 3-4 classes on the same race day. I have seen some folks start to use 2' charge leads with a balance wire, but I haven't gone this sophisticated yet.
I have invested in extra 4S packs for my 1/8 cars and have been balancing those packs... along with monitoring the IR more closely on them. I plan to eventually do the same with my 2S packs on the 1/10 track, but don't really see the need just yet
Most folks will have at least 2 packs per car... and for me that wasn't practical years ago when I ran as many as 10 classes... I basically had only 1 pack per car and generally charge my packs in my cars to save time when running 3-4 classes on the same race day. I have seen some folks start to use 2' charge leads with a balance wire, but I haven't gone this sophisticated yet.
I have invested in extra 4S packs for my 1/8 cars and have been balancing those packs... along with monitoring the IR more closely on them. I plan to eventually do the same with my 2S packs on the 1/10 track, but don't really see the need just yet
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