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Old 05-17-2021 | 02:55 AM
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EvilR2.0
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Originally Posted by Roelof
So you want to drain one LiPo battery to charge another.......

It is indeed a better and much cheaper choice to get a small car battery. For sure at a junk yard you will find a cheap battery.
Yep!

I do have a dry cell battery but again the same applies to my 406/PSU set up, I only want to travel light and only need to charge up at max 6-7 360mah lipos

As I’ve said I race 1/28 scale which use tiny 2S 330mah-360mah lipos now at proper events I’ll take my iCharger and PSU but once a week we race at a local community centre I planned on using the small ISDT P20 DC/DC charger and take a single charged 4/6S 5000mah lipo to use as the supply to charge the smaller ones?

Apologies if it’s a stupid request for advice but to me seems the most logical way around it!

There is sockets at the venue but not many and then that would require setting up with extension leads etc and dictate where I can place my kit.

I could just buy a heap of the 2S lipos and charge prior to going but that would require me buying a few plus on some nights I’ll only go through 3 packs over days 6-7 so seems more seasonable to just take one large charged lipo as I can then use it to charge and what I don’t use I can balance charge my other lipos etc

Plus the single lipo would only mean one charge and one storage/discharge depending how the race went so more convenient then having to charge and discharge multi lipos once a week.



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