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Old 01-05-2009 | 02:39 PM
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This is the lipo charger I have:

http://www.htbatteries.com/Public_ht...%20Charger.JPG

Where can I find an adapter to balance charge a Thunderpower 4c lipo battery?

The Thunderpower battery's balancing connector has 6 wires while the HT charger has a balancing lead with 5 wires???

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Old 01-13-2009 | 11:35 PM
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DSL, I'll help just in case anybody questions you... with a picture.

Here is a ThunderPower balancing tap for a 4S pack:



Every other manufacturer uses five wires (I've got the impression that TP uses an additional 'common' wire somehow).

I'm in the same boat. I'm beginning to think that there is no adapter, and TP does it so you have to buy their balancer, but let's both see if anyone has any good suggestions...
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Old 01-14-2009 | 12:00 AM
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Hey DSL, check this out:

http://www.rclipos.com/Accessories.htm

If you scroll down you'll see the ThunderPower adapters. I'm giong to post some questions in another thread (8th scale conversions) about this to see what anybody else says.

These adapters look a little hack, and you can see that they simply eliminate the last wire, so I don't know if this is a good solution or not.

By the way: your title to this thread is a little vague and may be why nobody had replied. Can you change the title so something like "ThunderPower 4S Balancing Adapter Help" ? That might get more responses.
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Old 01-14-2009 | 12:08 AM
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Originally Posted by dsl
This is the lipo charger I have:

http://www.htbatteries.com/Public_ht...%20Charger.JPG

Where can I find an adapter to balance charge a Thunderpower 4c lipo battery?

The Thunderpower battery's balancing connector has 6 wires while the HT charger has a balancing lead with 5 wires???

Thanks
Oh, and find another picture (or take one and post it) of the balancing taps on that charger so I can tell you what kind of balancing taps it does have.
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Old 01-17-2009 | 12:55 PM
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Those adapater work perfectly well and it is easy enough to solder up your own adapter leaving the one wire out. TP uses a common connector for different series count batteries, and the extra wire can safely be eliminated.
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Old 01-17-2009 | 10:14 PM
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Originally Posted by write2dgray
Those adapater work perfectly well and it is easy enough to solder up your own adapter leaving the one wire out. TP uses a common connector for different series count batteries, and the extra wire can safely be eliminated.
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The #5 and #6 wires in the connector are common positive. So either wire can be eliminated for balancing with your charger. Tp stared doing this in '06 to enable (simultaneous) series balancing of multiple packs with their 210v balancer.
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