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Originally Posted by Purplefade
zpb, that's the BK 1696, correct, you may have already told me that?? :-) So no "charger" per say, your charging your packs right from the psu, amazing, I can't believe I've never really thought of it quite like that.., though I was a nitro guy until I found this website. I guess all a charger is really, is a semi-programmable psu, huum, nice idea and very flexible, as you pointed out!
Now I'm in a pickle, $240\250 + ish (for a bit larger unit to charge the 6S), fully programable and can charge just about, if not, anything, or $190 + $psu for the Xtrema setup... How large a psu we talking to charge either 6S1P or 3S2P, if it makes any difference, I haven't built my packs yet. I think I'm actually leaning towards the Xtrema with psu, seems more "boob" proof for me being "new"er to electric.
I've had some older, simple "C" cell and Nimh, Nicd, RCs and have actually converted a couple of nitro "MAXX" trucks an E-Maxx and a few Savages, with my newest being a Revo 3.3, but the ICE and a couple handfuls of 6000mah 7.4v li-pos is about as crazy as I've gotten, lol...
Thanks!!
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Correct, it's the 1696 version, it's a solid 200watts 24/7 power rating. You can also control it from your PC through serial connection, quite neat, you can see all real time parameters graph and everything.
You can only charge up to 5s A123 on it, so any higher you have to get the 40v/5A version, there is also a 60v/3A as well, not that it matters.
Like BrianG said, there is no cell count obviously; but if you just have the right voltage set, it's not going to get 'confused' and pick the wrong voltage/cell count... whatever you want basically.