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Originally Posted by RC-Monster Mike
Sounds to me like a misunderstanding. I have dealt with T-Bro off and on for years - he has always been straightforward, honest and very respectful in emails as well as on the phone. Based on your side of the story, I don't see how you are at fault or responsible for anything beyond what you have done. It is certainly possible that Travis over-discharged the pack and caused the issue described, but without his side of the story, I personally will reserve judgement.
My thoughts are that more communication is needed between you, as I see both parties as amicable based on my experience. :)
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Thanks for your input Mike. I have tried to understand his issue, but not really had much success. I have owned a 109 charger and was not too fond of the limited abilities. Plus I found out how it completes its CV portion of the charge and that sounds a bit questionable. Just old technology. I think that you really need a charger with an internal balancer that "talks" to the charger to have a truly foolproof charging setup.
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Originally Posted by riverat1540
linc i would do whatever u think is right, definitely continue to try making contact and resolve things like adults, hopefull this will all work out, for both sides. but if all else fails i would eat the shipping send him his pack and avoid further transactions with him.
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Yeah, I guess I may have to eat the shipping. I tried to tell him that his charger was causing the issue before he sent the pack back to me, but he got a bit excited that I was "calling out" his charger... I figured that I would be the best person to diagnose the problem. Since there is no problem on my end with the pack I can only assume it was run under voltage and the charger would not read it as a 6s.
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Originally Posted by Finnster
I had a couple of trades w/ Travis and it worked out well (sold him new lipos.) I will say he did contact me a few weeks ago complaining about the packs and they won't charge as 6s.
First off he was confusing me w/ someone else, as the packs I sold were earlier this year, but I wanted to help him out anyway as the original trade was smooth and he seems like a decent guy.
Second tho was I tried to explain to him, over several PMs, it was mostly due to the inflexibility of his charger, not necc something wrong w/ the pack. Auto-detect will default to the lower cell count if the voltage reading is in an area of overlap for safety reasons. (ie 16V: could be 5S @3.2v/cell or 4S @ 4V.)
Most chargers you can override it to go to higher cell count, but didn't seem like the 109 could do that. I'm not sure he really ever bought into that point and seemed convinced the cells were bad. IDK either way. He told me he was off to talk to whomever sold him the cells.
I haven't used a AF109 specifically so I don't know how/if you can override the cell count.
Hopefully you get this worked out ok. My money is on misunderstanding.
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I think you have hit the nail on the head Ryan. Thanks for sharing that info with me. My money is on the charger having an issue.