LiPo help
#1
Alright so today I went and ran my e-revo and surprisingly I didn't break anything major but I did break the traxxas wheelie bar and the rear bumper mount. I went to charge the packs and my charger is saying one battery is way out of balance how can I fix this? I have a really low grade charger, it doesn't have a discharge option or anything. Just an option to charge 1s,2s,3s.
#5
I am running 2s and I do plug in the balancer but its too unbalanced for the charger to charge it. Anyways I charged it for a bit without the balancer then I plugged the balancer in and its charging fine now...
#6
Joined: Apr 2009
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From: Long Island, NY
Most chargers (even the cheap ones) have circuitry preventing the charging of a Lipo if one of the cells is bellow 3.0 volts. Double check esc cutoff settings and maybe raise it a little if it occurs again.
#8
I have 2 2s in series. So 4s total. MMM 2200kv stock electronics.
#9
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Oh, here you gave me the impression you were running 2s. May have run it to low, or possibly didn't have both packs fully charged which can run the low pack wonky. Also as your packs get a lot of runs on them they can become mismatched which can run one of them wonky. I like to test all my cells periodically with a voltage tester before, after charging, and after running to know for sure where they are at.
#10
curious, what settings do you have for lipo-cutoff on your speed control?
as a tip, I would recommend you do hard cutoff setttings and NOT rely on the ESC to autodetect the packs.
I would also set the cutoff to the equivalent of 3.4V per cell. That shoudl give you some cushion and help your batteries out. So on 4S, that would be 13.6V total. And remember that when you hit cutoff, its a soft cutoff from what I recall, so don't keep running around. bring it in, shut her down.
as a tip, I would recommend you do hard cutoff setttings and NOT rely on the ESC to autodetect the packs.
I would also set the cutoff to the equivalent of 3.4V per cell. That shoudl give you some cushion and help your batteries out. So on 4S, that would be 13.6V total. And remember that when you hit cutoff, its a soft cutoff from what I recall, so don't keep running around. bring it in, shut her down.




