96LikesiCharger 406 DUO Charger
03-28-2014, 11:44 AM
#16
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I was a little nervous plugging it in, but on the 308 thread, they confirmed the wiring. 
The biggest concern is if you don't pay attention or someone else hooks your charger up for you and the balance connector gets plugged into the temp sensor port...... POOOOF! goes that channel. Why they used the same plug as a balance connector baffles me. I've seen several chargers get ruined this way so far.
03-28-2014, 11:49 AM
#19
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You will need to either hook up the charger to a full size car battery (regenerative discharging) or add some sort of resistor bank to the second channel (basically discharging from one channel to the other...I have yet to try this).
Or there is a stand-alone discharger (don't have the link handy) that supposedly works well.
03-28-2014, 11:51 AM
#20
idbdoug,
You will need to either hook up the charger to a full size car battery (regenerative discharging) or add some sort of resistor bank to the second channel (basically discharging from one channel to the other...I have yet to try this).
Or there is a stand-alone discharger (don't have the link handy) that supposedly works well.
You will need to either hook up the charger to a full size car battery (regenerative discharging) or add some sort of resistor bank to the second channel (basically discharging from one channel to the other...I have yet to try this).
Or there is a stand-alone discharger (don't have the link handy) that supposedly works well.
03-28-2014, 11:52 AM
#21
wow...what kind of resistor bank do we need? I heard of some charging on one channel and discharging on the other channel to gain increased amps on the discharge. That is what the manual kind of explains, was going to try that later. You can also connect both channels to the battery and set to synchronous mode to gain a few amps.
03-28-2014, 11:53 AM
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03-28-2014, 11:55 AM
#24
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wow...what kind of resistor bank do we need? I heard of some charging on one channel and discharging on the other channel to gain increased amps on the discharge. That is what the manual kind of explains, was going to try that later. You can also connect both channels to the battery and set to synchronous mode to gain a few amps.
Check the 308 thread, there was a guy using one of the Integy Reactor discharger as the resistor bank. He basically gutted the electronics and hooked the wires to the resistor inside of the case. For only $20, it was a cheap way to discharge at 25amps.
03-28-2014, 11:59 AM
#26
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try integy.com:
http://www.integy.com/st_prod.html?p...w#.UzXJXl5RfFY
Price went up! lol, it was $17 last I checked a few weeks ago. You might also be able to find one sitting in a hobby shop somewhere.
Here's some pictures to give you an idea of what you do with the reactor:
http://www.integy.com/st_prod.html?p...w#.UzXJXl5RfFY
Price went up! lol, it was $17 last I checked a few weeks ago. You might also be able to find one sitting in a hobby shop somewhere.
Here's some pictures to give you an idea of what you do with the reactor:
Last edited by JiuHaWong; 03-28-2014 at 12:12 PM.
03-28-2014, 12:14 PM
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03-28-2014, 12:18 PM
#29
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Found the link to the standalone discharger:
http://www.racersmeasurementsystems....r-Dumper-W.htm
To date, I have yet to find any reviews on it.
http://www.racersmeasurementsystems....r-Dumper-W.htm
To date, I have yet to find any reviews on it.