Thanks for taking a moment to educate me on this. I am getting back into the hobby after an 8 year hiatus. I stopped racing due to lack of time but always knew I’d be back. When I sold off all of my gear I kept my tools, my Orion Twinspec charger and my muchmore power supply. My question to you guys is regarding HV lipos. It seems like most 2s shorty packs are HV nowadays. Does your charger require a HvLi mode to charge these packs? I see most current model chargers have a HvLi mode/software so I’m assuming that is the case. Just trying to keep some cost down and not have to buy stuff I don’t need immediately. Eventually I’d like to pick up a 406duo or one of the new muchmore spectre chargers so I can hit those higher amp rates for charge/discharge. Sorry if this has been answered somewhere on the forum before, I did search for this and didn’t see anything. Thanks for your time.

Lihv is just a better lipo with a higher cutoff voltage. Your charger doesn't need a lihv program to take advantage, but it will need the option to raise the cutoff voltage. Our track limits it to 4.22 so lihv doesn't make a lot of difference.

Does your track limit the charge cutoff voltage?

Not 100% sure if they do but I’m sure at races where the cars are tech’d I would need to be at that 8.4v limit. Realistically I just didn’t want to wreck the battery or the charger if I tried to charge an HV lipo on this charger.

You will not wreck a thing. Charging an HV LiPo on a normal LiPo program will just charge the battery to 8.4v with about 80 to 90% of its capacity.

Main reason folks are charging to 4.22V/cell is due to voltage sag at the end of the cycle... many batteries will drop to 8.36V and the HV charger will hit 8.40V when the cells are set to 4.22V/cell

Many racers prefer HV packs even though they aren't charging at HV, theory being that the HV cells are rated for higher voltage so they aren't being worked as hard and will tend to last longer before IR fade, etc.