Best damn balance charger I ever had

[FG101C]

Can you charge more than one pack at a time with this?

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Originally Posted by FG101C

Can you charge more than one pack at a time with this?

You could charge multiple packs in series up to 6s (6 total cells) and still reap the benefits of this charger.

Any parallel charging would negate the benefits of individual cell monitoring.

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Originally Posted by mistercrash

You can all agree with everything that anyone who never used this charger as to say. I have been using two of them on a daily basis for the past 4 weeks to recharge my 20S20P, 74V 30Ah battery in my E-Moped and the balance tabs barely become warm. My battery can be separated into four 5S packs fast so I recharge two 5S and then the other two 5S.
Even doing it that way is faster than using two Hyperion 1420i to recharge all at once or two Cellpro 10S to recharge all at once because they always go into a balance charge mode that tries to equalize 30Ah cells with each other at less than 1 amp

Once the charge is done, I checked the voltage of each cell with my Fluke and they all are below 4.205V so no over charging going on here. I did this for the first 5 charges just to find out if the chargers are consistant and they are. That is with the chargers adjusted to charge at 4.2V per cell. That is adjustable to a lower voltage if needed.

So hypothesize all you want, I know what I got and I know it works well Just wanted to share.

Originally Posted by pinkpanda3310

I think you missed what BrianG was saying. The final voltage will be reasonably accurate but when 3+ amps is charging through the tap that's when the cell could be over done. As the charger eases off at the end of the charge the resistance of the wire and connectors will have nil effect and the cell voltage can be read accurately.

I get it you like this charger and I'm not trying to speak out of turn, just seemed like a bit of misunderstanding

Like panda said, Art1ck and Brian were just pontificating and stating facts about electricity.

They said nothing negative of the charger itself, and we all agree individual cell monitoring/charging is the safest and most beneficial to the battery pack.

You're right, they're right, we're all right, just sharing knowledge.

[FG101C]

Lol, watched the video, it looks as if you could do two (or more) packs at the same time. At $80.00 two chargers is still less than one Hyperion duo.

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Originally Posted by FG101C

Lol, watched the video, it looks as if you could do two (or more) packs at the same time. At $80.00 two chargers is still less than one Hyperion duo.

But the whole point of this charger is individual cell monitoring. Yes in the video he paralleled a lot of packs, but again, that negates any advantage of this charger.

If you"re going to parallel charge a $30 hobby king charger will do the job just as well as anything else.

[FG101C]

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

But the whole point of this charger is individual cell monitoring.

Well that's pretty obvious, my point is if I want to go to the track and charge two 5s packs at the same time, then two of these chargers is still less than one Hyperion Duo and I get the magical cell monitoring which must be better than my current duo has been for last five+ years. So if my Hyperion Duo ever dies I may look at two of these.

[nativepaul]

Can the terminal voltage be increased as well as lowered? When racing I charge to 4.23v/cell on my current charger and wouldn't want to lose the ability to do so. I had a GT power GT8 which wasn't adjustable and charged to a stated 4.2v/cell but it was inaccurate and that 4.2v was actually 4.185v, when I got a replacement for it I found that there was quite a few extra mAh to be had in the difference between 4.185 and 4.23v/cell, the maximum allowed in the rules I race to.

You mentioned being faster than cellpro 10s chargers, but I thought the cellpro chargers charged the cells individually through the balance leads in the same way, is that not the case? I have 8s packs that I need to charge and was thinking of going with a cellpro 10 so I could charge them quickly whilst other stuff is charging rather than splitting into 4s and taking up both ports of my current charger.

[FG101C]

Nice charger.