WhataNut FMA PowerLab8 1000W charger

[feistyacorn]

What are the dimensions on this charger?

[SunnyHouTX]

Do you think the CC motor bullets are long enough? What are you using? And the fuse block is good? Thanks Romano.

[SunnyHouTX]

About 6"x7"x4"

[feistyacorn]

Originally Posted by SunnyHouTX

About 6"x7"x4"

Thanks! Im still dreaming about getting this charger. Someday.....

[snellemin]

The fuseblock is nice, as you can attached multiple charge leads/connectors to it.

I use the 4mm bullets from the cheapo Chinese lipo packs that come with 10AWG wires.

[SunnyHouTX]

Originally Posted by snellemin

The fuseblock is nice, as you can attached multiple charge leads/connectors to it.

I use the 4mm bullets from the cheapo Chinese lipo packs that come with 10AWG wires.

I'm going to give the ones I got a chance first. Then I might have to go to what you're using. Good thing the fuse block is good: I ordered two of them.

[MindThoughts]

These 40amp wires are also available now as well :)

Direct Link:
http://www.fmadirect.com/detail.htm?...410&section=91

Below is a copy of an E-Mail I received (I signed up to receive new product notifications).

New Stock at FMA Direct
Cellpro PowerLab 40A Banana Plugs
$14.95
New 40A cables are required when parallel charging 2 or more packs on the new PowerLab 8 V2. The new V2 firmware is available to download if you want to upgrade a PowerLab 8 V1 model to get the full 1344W output power of V2.

Free V2 PL8 Charge Control Software (CCS)

Now shipping Cellpro PowerLab 8 V2 chargers and combos on the Revolectrix website.

[SunnyHouTX]

Saw them Joseph but it will be cheaper to build my own. Heck, I might even do stackable ones since I've got two fuse blocks coming. My local car stereo shop sells 12awg and 10awg wire for cheap and I've got a ton of male and female 4mm bananas so I'm all set.

So I've been playing with the charger for the last couple of hours... LOVE IT! Discharging two packs at a time at 40A (total) is amazing. Dumping it into a car battery so the fans rarely come on. It's very eerie to see 35A - 40A on the CCS on screen but no noise from the charger! Just finished discharging two 5200mAH 2S packs in 17 minutes or so... ridiculous

[SunnyHouTX]

Amazing... pulling 46.5 Amps from the fleaBay power supply at full voltage doing a 40A recharge from storage (3.8V) on two 5000mAH 3S packs. Packs hooked up in parallel/daisy-chained. Took less than 13 minutes, with a total of 7311mAH stuffed back into both packs in that time frame. EC5 connectors between the charger and the power supply were at 95*F and same for the stacked bananas going to the batteries from the charger. Should be fixed with the new ones I plan on making soon.

[snellemin]

You can see your 1.1s allready heh.

[SunnyHouTX]

Oh yes! gonna be interesting.

[MindThoughts]

Very very nice :)

Can anybody tell me if this charger can measure the internal resistance of the cells like my friends iCharger. I like the PowerLab8 more but would really like that feature as well. Just want to know before I hit the "BUY" button.

[MindThoughts]

Yes :)

Originally Posted by BIG-block

Can anybody tell me if this charger can measure the internal resistance of the cells like my friends iCharger. I like the PowerLab8 more but would really like that feature as well. Just want to know before I hit the "BUY" button.

[snellemin]

Yes it does.