Originally Posted by
dstidham
How often should I be balance charging my lipos? Usually i balance charge them the night before going to the track. Then at the track i just fast charge them at 1C.
Between my sons and I we have 4 cars that take shorties, so we have various 2s capcities (3500 to 4700) for stock and 4wd buggy. We have somewhere around 9 batteries total.
My plan is to get an iCharger 406 Duo. I was hoping to be able to balance parallel charge them on both channels (4 batteries per side charging at 20amps per side) the night before. Then I could charge in 3 battery batches at the track.
Another reason is anytime i had a fully charged battery at the end of race/practice it takes so long to get into storage because the discharge rate is 1amp. I am hoping the duo will speed this up as well.
Ideally, every time you charge. The new charger will significantly improve the ability to do this as you would be able to charge at more than a 1C rate as well as discharge faster. Of course though, cant (shouldn't) balance multiple packs while parallel charging without some special balance board equipment and also making sure lipos are of similar size and age.