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Old 12-08-2009 | 04:20 PM
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dnrcustoms
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Originally Posted by Duster_360
It does tell you what mah was put in, its a matter of paying attention. The only way to speed up charging for lipo is to charge at higher C rates. If your lipo manufacturer has said yours is ok for 2C charge rate, then there's your answer. My lipos are all older generation which were 1C, so I haven't done any 2C charges. Your charger is rated for 20amps so 10amps should be no prob provided you have a power supply thats up to the task.

The manual is not detailed, but I find it covers most everything the charger will do if only with a passing comment. I have 2 0610i chargers that I use to network charge lipos for my Flux and aince thats not mainstream, its hardly covered at all. The charger is intiutive enough that I've managed to figure it all out. You should be able to do the same. Sit down with the charger, tiurn it on and go exploring the menus. Maybe even take some notes if its important.

Your Turnigy's will last longer and charge quicker if you don't run them to the lvc - set lvc higher and when you 1st think to yourself is it slowing?, quit. The deeper discharge on these causes more cell imbalance - thats where some of the extra time charging is going to balancing. My 2S 5000mah 25C Neuenergys take less than an hour to charge (~40-50min), I use 3.4v/cell as an lvc (6.8v) and when I notice response has fallen just enough to notice, I stop and recharge - I'm usually putting somewhere around 3600mah back in and teh cells are rarely more than .005mv apart. Measure yours the next time you run to the lvc and see haow far apart you're pulling them.

There's a lot of things in this hobby you have to discover for yourself.

Ya, mistakes and just plain gettin in there is how you learn. But, I have 5 months of cold/snow to look foward to. So thats why I was looking for some reading material!! My lvc is set at 5s on my RX8. Seemed to hold pretty good pwr to the end, But I could definatly tell it was getting slower before it finally went. So maybe I can tweak that a little. At least My lipos are only like 60 bucks if I mess one up vs 200 for now. thats why I went with them to start. Thanks for the help.
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