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Old 02-12-2010 | 07:56 AM
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Duster_360
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Originally Posted by sprintcarracer
This is probabley a stupid question but can these batteries be charged on lipo mode or do they requier a li-fe specific charger.
You need a charger with a LiFe specific charge mode. There's not only a voltage diff, but LiFe is not governed by 1C, 2C, etc charge rules like lipo. I charge my pacs at 10amps and thats only because thats the max my charger can do.

A way to deal with the low voltage is if you were running XS lipo (X is cell count), you run X+1 LiFe and it'll be pretty close. Where I use 5S lipo, I use 6S LiFe.
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