Originally Posted by
kiwiazbro
I have a Gens Ace 7.4 5000mah. Had it about 18 months and run it about once a month at club meets. Always balance charge it at the correct ampage and store it correctly although lately its been stopping and detecting a low or high cell voltage. Also charging now the voltage jumps 8.20, 8.15, 8.20,8.15 etc which seems to me it's unbalanced somehow. Does this mean the battery is done and I should get a new one? How long do lipos last?
Thank you
You might want to double check that one of your charging cables isn't going bad, or that the terminals on your battery are not damaged. I've had that behavior caused by a bad balance terminal on the battery. The charger wasn't always able to get a reading off the balance port and would throw high cell voltage alarms, while the individual cell voltages would be all over the place.