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Old 03-01-2010 | 12:23 PM
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Duster_360
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Ice charger's manual has some little detail, but its getting dated. The Team Checkpoint 1030 charger is prob a little better since it came out later. But neither have a builtin balancer so thats lacking.

I have a DC charger that works a little like the Passport in that can use capacity, time or voltage to terminate lipo charging. For capacity, since you never know if your cells underrated, I set up with headroom - usually 10-15% so for a 5000mah I'd set it at 5500mah. If it stops at 5500mah, and it will be the exact amount so you'll know what causd the termination - then reset the capacity higher next time.

You want to get capacity set high enough so the charge terminates on voltage - thats means the lipo is fully charged. If you're not getting close to 4.2v/cell, up the capacity until the terminate on voltage like they should.
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