Wildcat1971

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safety. I have it on ignore

Matt Trimmings

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I too like to live dangerously...

colinjackson

Hello guys

Just brought myself a 406 to use for charging/discharging 2s race packs.

My question is I need some help with making a resistor bank for discharging across channels. I want to achieve roughly 35 amp discharge so I understand I will need 300w discharge power.

I'm not clued up when it comes to resistors etc and from scrolling through the pages night after night it's become a bit of a mind blower!! 😖. So I have been looking at 1Ohm 100w power resistors as there cheap, how many will I need and how to wire them is my question???

I have a large heatsink to attach them to and plan to use a heavy duty fan for cooling.

Thanks

Wildcat1971

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5 of them should be fine.

HBRob

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Wire them parallel, like this.

4 will give you 40a of discharge on a 2S pack.

NITTO550

4 won't last long. You will be surprised to know how many people are walking around with these things and half of the resistors are blown, and they don't know it.

Wildcat1971

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I was thinking of building one with 8-10. more heat dissipation.

HBRob

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As long as you have a proper heat sink, high quality heat sink epoxy, a good fan, and dont buy cheap resistors 4 is plenty strictly from a ohms law/capacity standpoint. Eliminate any of those and all bets are off. I was building them for awhile as a side project and selling them locally and learned the hard way about cheap resistors, ended up replacing more than half of them.

Wildcat1971

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you can change the resistance on each resistor to tune for what you want.

Socket

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V=IR

colinjackson

Thanks for your help guys

iMarky

my new improved cable



also my my friend icharger on the very left side wont work.. it makes a buzzing sound when i plug it to the PS and makes my PS like flicker.. anyone know what it could be ? wont power up i want to look into it and open it up just wondering if anyone knows whats going on to save me time..
excuse my buggy lol

disaster999

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rip inbox mark =P

daveb

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Just started using mine and now need new wires. Looking for options, I know Motiv and TQ make some but there's a few wires posted in pictures shown. Are those custom made or available somewhere?

Frank L

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Nice charge lead very professional looking and cuts down on the clutter.
Source??