RC Discharger
 

I hear RC Discharger is probably the best regenerative discharger on the market. I'm thinking about ordering one. Any pros/cons from any who have used one?

What do they call the best?
That guy just made standard equipment in a nice housing, all stuff explained over here in the forums.

The dicharge banks are just resustors
The power supply's are just the famous HP server PSU's sold for a few bucks on many sites.
Regenerate dicharging is just what the X6 charger can do by using the discharge current to charge another battery.

Depends on which one.

One is just a resistor in a nice housing. Totally not worth it IMHO. I build my own discharge banks and will likely start selling them soon.

The other part they make is a full regen setup and if they weren't so expensive, I'd get one. With the regen setup, you can use both ports on your 406duo to cycle batteries at 40 amps using the regen feature. They did a little work to get the charger to work with both a battery and a power supply.

The main con is that it'll cost you $350-$400 USD to get one from them in france. The US side isn't importing them. For that kind of money, I could buy another icharger and discharge bank. They're also heavy because your carrying a battery around with you. You do need to be aware of the battery state of charge and make sure you put the regen battery into storage mode at some point.

last I heard he isn’t making anymore you will be better off using a resistor bank

They can be ordered from france. I talked to the guy here and his brother in France. Decided it just wasn't worth the cost.

Yeah, I've been in contact with the European branch to put an order in. I picked up a 406Duo so should be a good setup.

Maybe somewhat on topic - what size of battery should you use as a regenerative load bank. I have a 4s 4200 LIFE battery that I would consider doing this with for an X6. Mainly to cycle 4200 to 4600 2S batteries. Thinking I would start with a freshly charged 4s and at least cycle a battery two times before a heat safely. I would think a lead acid battery wouldn't or it would need to be a big truck battery to do it. LIPO/LIFE I would think you would want it to be at least twice the watt-hour if not alittle more?

I tried to see if they would give a discount if I ordered multiple units, but it was only a slight cost reduction per unit in shipping. Not sure what their desire is because they sure make it hard to get into one of their units.

thats what he told me a few weeks ago , a friend of mine up north can make them , he was able to make his own ,

That's awesome. I'm sure for someone with some electronics experience it's not the most challenging thing in the world, but I don't have the time or experience to figure it out and then I'd have to package it. Maybe some day I will or perhaps some day there will be a more cost-effective solution. For now, resistor banks it is.

1s
 

Might not be the right place but didn’t really want to start a new thread. Anyways is there an option out there for discharging 1s lipos. I’ve got a icharger but I don’t have discharge bank. Any other options

You can make a resistor bank to hook into the other channel on a duo or use extra discharge feature on a s or x series icharger. PM me if you want one made for you.

How to setup a resistor bank is all explained in the manual.

50Ah LiFEPO4 batteries can be had for around $100 these days. They are not very large or heavy. You can use this in place of your power supply and utilize the iCharger's regenerative discharging capability, dumping the discharge of your RC battery back into the supply battery to be used again on the next charge cycle. Show up to the track with the supply battery at 70 - 80% charged and you have enough capacity to charge/discharge all day long.

Who has them for $100? I've seen them in the $200 range.