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Old 11-19-2019, 06:08 PM
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I can not for life of me get this to work. I have read every thread I can. Made my discharger as per instructions. X6 is set to "Not Regenerative". Downloaded the latest software (running 2.0.7). Watched every video I could. "Extra Discharge Enabled". When I go to discharge the amperage has gone as high as 3.2 but then the charger shuts off and says done. I see in the pictures that the voltage shown is very low. Do I need to set the low cutoff voltage somewhere and if so how is that done?
Only other thing I can think of now is the comment made about needing to run the newer beta software. Is this the problem I wonder? Where do I get this beta software? The Junsi Console just has the 2.0.7 firmware.
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I can not for life of me get this to work. I have read every thread I can. Made my discharger as per instructions. X6 is set to "Not Regenerative". Downloaded the latest software (running 2.0.7). Watched every video I could. "Extra Discharge Enabled". When I go to discharge the amperage has gone as high as 3.2 but then the charger shuts off and says done. I see in the pictures that the voltage shown is very low. Do I need to set the low cutoff voltage somewhere and if so how is that done?
Only other thing I can think of now is the comment made about needing to run the newer beta software. Is this the problem I wonder? Where do I get this beta software? The Junsi Console just has the 2.0.7 firmware.
Can you show pics of your discharge bank? and what your screen on the x6 looks like?
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Old 11-19-2019, 06:59 PM
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Goes down to about 7 volts and then says “Done”

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am I reading that wrong or does it look like it went up and not down?
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VanBee you need to wire up your discharge bank so that the balance leads are still connected directly to the battery.
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Your discharge voltage is set to 3.55V per cell. In the discharging photo, one of your cell voltages is reading at 3.552V, which is why it's stopping.
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Originally Posted by mushroomed
VanBee you need to wire up your discharge bank so that the balance leads are still connected directly to the battery.
It is connected. That's the black terminal between the positive and negative of the battery.
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Your discharge voltage is set to 3.55V per cell. In the discharging photo, one of your cell voltages is reading at 3.552V, which is why it's stopping.
Yes I thought of that too. I set it to what Marcos had set it at which shows 3.55v. I later adjust it as low as it goes to 3.0v and it still did the same thing.
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am I reading that wrong or does it look like it went up and not down?
It showed a higher voltage when it shut down. The lower voltage was during the small amount of discharging it was doing.
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Originally Posted by VanBee
It is connected. That's the black terminal between the positive and negative of the battery.
That’s the balance connector, but notice the thin wires running along the red and black 4/5mm connectors on your charge lead? These are telling the charger the voltage and resistance of the individual cells. Your black lead is connected to the discharge bank so the charger sees one cell with huge resistance (the discharge bank) and that skews the voltage of that cell too. Check out my post from earlier in the thread with the same problem, same charge lead and a solution:
Icharger x6 Mini 30A Discharge


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Originally Posted by VanBee
It showed a higher voltage when it shut down. The lower voltage was during the small amount of discharging it was doing.
Do you have another battery to test with? If one cell is dropping that much from a 3 amp load, I would think the battery is the culprit.
Just my guess.


Question to everyone; Are you guys using any thermal paste between your resistors and heat sinks for the discharge banks? I am trying to figure out a design where I can use my old much more thermal electric motor cooler to cool the resisters, just haven't decided on the layout.
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I used thermally conductive double sided tape to mount the resistors.
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Originally Posted by mushroomed


That’s the balance connector, but notice the thin wires running along the red and black 4/5mm connectors on your charge lead? These are telling the charger the voltage and resistance of the individual cells. Your black lead is connected to the discharge bank so the charger sees one cell with huge resistance (the discharge bank) and that skews the voltage of that cell too. Check out my post from earlier in the thread with the same problem, same charge lead and a solution:
Icharger x6 Mini 30A Discharge



AaHaa!!! I see the difference. I will try that later this evening. Hopefully that works.

What do you do with the middle balance lead in a 1S application?
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Originally Posted by VanBee

What do you do with the middle balance lead in a 1S application?
I believe it will just hang loose in that case, with 1 cell there is nothing to balance!
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I would like to report SUCCESS!!!

Thanks so much mushroomed!
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