Originally Posted by
ultegrasti
there's ur 1st issue. its specifically stated by most (if not all) lipo retailers to NOT CHARGE with MRC chargers. i know 1 person who has suffered 2nd deg burns and another sans his house b/c of those chargers and lipo. they say they can, they cannot. get rid of it or stop using lipo.
they keep changin/updatin their chargers to try and figure it out. quickly canning the old models after all the issues. play it safe and go another route (ie ICE or astro 109).
R
I've been safely charging my lipos with a a MRC 977 and the MRC 969(upgraded to a 977) for over a year now. You just have to make sure you are in LIPO mode. That was good that the charger detected that the battery was below the minimum voltage. I would have done the same thing; just charge in NIMH mode a .3 mah once the battery is above 6vdc then stop the charge and continue in lipo mode.
If your battery does not have a balance plug there is no need to buy a balancer. Most transmiter lipos do not come with a balance jack because the current draw is so small that the batteries hardly ever have to balanced.
Not sure about receiver batteries. I believe the excess heat from either engine or speedo may warrant the need to balance the pack.
Commonsenserc sells a stand alone balancer for about $30.00 you just have to find the proper harness to matched the battery to the balancer.
Pass you soon...