Power Station Project
 

I would like to setup a power station at my house. This station will not leave my house, as I already have my 308 and PS that I use for travel. What I have for my house is a brand new icharger x6, a Competition Electronics 23 amp PS, a CRC tire lathe, SKY RC motor analyser, SKY Tire Sander, SKY RC scales, and a tire gluing device. I have an old Integy distribution block that overheats as well. What I would like to do is to make some sort of voltage reducer so I can use my PS to power the SKY RC accessories, which I generally use a 2s battery for now. The main function of the x6 will be to discharge my batterie to their storage voltage, and to charge the life battery for my TX. Also, it will be used to cycle batteries during the summer when I am not racing. I need to make discharge banks for 2s and 1s lipos. For the 2s I know I need 5 x 1 ohm, 100 watt resisters. Not sure what I need for the 1s to discharge at 30 amps. And I have no idea what I need to reduce the voltage on my PS to 8.4v for the accessories. So any help is most appreciative, including links to other projects where people may have already done this. I am not adverse to reading what others have already done!



If anyone is interested, I can take pics and chronicle the build process. Will probably take a bit to do since this isn’t a priority, it is mainly a convenience.

Look on ebay/aliexpres/banggood to DC/DC converters, there are plenty to find. 1 problem is that the motor analyzer probably need some power, for sure when you use a low turns motor.

But there are high power converters to find
https://nl.aliexpress.com/item/32949...chweb201603_52

Thank you very much!
Also, I only race stock, so no motor hotter than a 17.5.

Use the power supply function on the X6 to drive all the stuff that needs 8.4v

I did not know that was a thing... I will look into this. Is that possible on the 308 duo as well?

I'd use a 12v car battery for a 30a regenerative discharge and for a 12v power supply. Keep a float charger on a switch to top off the battery, but never so much that it can't be a discharge load.

Then simple resistors to lower voltage to the glue machine and such. Although a large rc battery can run those for months on a single charge, so why bother?

My truer is connected to an old battery, I charge it twice a year at most.

The X6 and the older iChargers have this function. Don't think the "fancy" 3xx and 4xx do though.

Can you point me to a brief tutorial on how to do this? I had a cursory look through the manual and couldn't find the information.

Thanks

By the way, as mentioned above it doesn't looks as though the iCharger duo chargers mention this feature in their manuals, but I think it would be worth making sure you've got the latest updates and check to see if the feature has been added with a firmware update.

But keep in mind when using the port as a power supply no battery can be charged.... In case of an X6 you hve to choose.....

Absolutely no worries on this. The charger will not see a ton of use charging batteries, mainly it will discharge the batteries I use at the track to storage voltage when I get home. Also the accessories really don't see a lot of use either, as I said in my op, this is just for convenience.

All that said, I powered on my x6 for the first time last night and used it for the power source and ran the motor analyser on it. Everything worked like it should. I still need to build a resister bank for it, but there is plenty of information in the x6 30amp discharge thread to do that.

Thank you all for your help!

This set up (and having the space for one) is serious goals! Keep it up!