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Turnigy balancer & Charger 2S-3S
Fits all Zippy 3S or 2S packs and charges at a rate of around 800mAh.
This is an excellent & cheap solution to charging 2 or 3S lipoly. Connect 4-5 chargers at once and charge multiple packs from the same power source!
Input: 12~15v DC
I connected this charger to a 3S 2500 mah battery, the green light flashed and no current was taken from the 12v source. Does this mean it fails to work if the battery is discharged too low?
I do not understand the claim "charges at a rate of around 800 mAh". A rate is normally a current, so perhaps 800mA. Charging at that rate for one hour would be a charge of 800 mAh.
After charging from a current limited source for several hours, at 120mA the battery was then showing roughly normal levels. But connecting the balance charger again, it just sits there drawing about 60mA and the green light just sites there.
I do not recommend this simple charger. I don't think it works as claimed.
comprei varios carregadores desses e um deles veio queimado, acredito que carrega apenas 50 ou 100mah leva uma eternidade pra carregar uma 3s 2200mah é* um absurdo uma marca tao conceituada como a turnigy nao testar seus produtos antes de enviar ao mercado
Creo que es tambié*n un tema de costos. Por 4 dolares no puede esper**** mucho. Por 11 dolares hay en HK cargadores mucho mejores. Este es solo para tenerlo en la caja de herramientas, por las dudas.
Amigo gerry01 independente de quanto custa um produto,você* espera que ele pelo menos venha funcionando conforme as especificaç*õ*es, o produto que a hobbyking me enviou veio estragado de fabrica isso é* indiscutí*vel, preciso ser indenizado,Abraç*os
Luiz, coincido contigo, se espera que por lo menos venga funcionando. Aunque funcione poco tiempo, debe llegar funcionando. Es una pena, porque un minimo control de calidad podria evitar grandes problemas.
The final voltage of a Lipo should be 4.2V per cell. If your final voltage is 3.9V per cell and you are charging a 3S, I expect that your charger input voltage is just 12V. The input voltage should be higher than the output voltage.
what sort of final voltage can I expect to find per cell when the green light goes off (charge finished) thnaks. I have a few of there simple chargers, eflite....some random/generic cheap rubbish that came with an equally cheap eBay purchase, and seem to finish charging at 3.9 v!
Dear RC STEVE,
when i charging my 2200mah 3s battery,I stop when voltage is come upto 12.60V.Then we can find the max amount per one cell.
Thnaks!hope this will help for you
Plugging it in the 3S slot would not help. The charger logic wouldn't charge it... You could use another 2S Battery to charge it. However if one cell is dead (try a lipo voltage meter to find out), then the battery cannot be used as a 2S anymore.
My 2s lipo died completely is there any way to plug it into the 3s slot for a few seconds to revive it, or is there another way to revive it without a Niah charger need help ASAP!
Plugging it in the 3S slot would not help. The charger logic wouldn't charge it... You could use another 2S Battery to charge it. However if one cell is dead (try a lipo voltage meter to find out), then the battery cannot be used as a 2S anymore.
If you connect the battery to the Turnigy Accucel-6 50W 6A Balancer/Charger (PRODUCT ID: ACC6) and instead of manually selecting the type of cell (1s/2s/3s etc), use the auto detect setting, then the charger will start charging the battery even if the current voltage of the battery is below the lower limit.
hi, i guess this is silly questions, how to use this charger? is this fit with Turnigy 1700mAh 2S 20C Lipo Pack? what are those black and red clamp for? need adaptor?
Yes you can , this charger is for 2cell and 3 cell lipo. You can use the clamps to charge and by doing that u can plug it into a car battery other wise u can buy an adapter and charge it through the wall. All u gotta do is plug the lipo into the charger then connect the clamps wire into the charger and grab ur car battery and charge it.
Plug the balance lead of the battery (The white plug on the shorter lead) into the smaller female connector on the side of the charger and then connect the clamps onto a car battery or another 12V power supply.
I have a turnigy and zippy battery, both 2200mah 3s 25c. I bought a 12v adapter and plugged it in. I used it since January, but lately for some reason something happened. My batteries (both) stopped lifting my helicopters (a quad and an hk450), which i guess is because of low voltage. I bought a low voltage alarm from HK, and when I tried it, it did not read a 3rd cell, only 2 lights lit up. I borrowed a voltage tester and it marked 8.34 volts, after charging it with a different charger. Still, it should be 11.1 volts. Any suggestions? Can this even be fixed?
Thanks
When you charge your 11.1 v it is suposed to be at 12.6v each lipo cell are rated at 3.7 nominal volts and they charge at 4.2 volts per cell it will take at least 3 hours to charge a 3cell on that charer i have the same type. So either your adapter has gone out or most likely your battery is going dead and you will have to replace. And please give me credit
When I use my battery it gets very warm, so i guess this contributes to the idea that it has gone out. I will probably order a new charger also.
Thanks for the help!
NO DO NOT TRY TO FIX THE BATTERY IT WILL EXPLODE. and can cause house fires and hurt you really bad one a lipo is gone its gone in my case and almost everyone elses
I have been using a generic 12V 1A adapter charging 2s 1300's with no problems. Generally more amperage is better just be careful not to exceed 12 volts.
What do the LEDs indicate? I guess the red one shows if power is connected, and the green one if the battery is connected and then the green goes out when the battery is charged but what about blinking green??
Reading the comments below I found some saying green flashing means balancing and some said it means fauly battery (too low voltage). In my case it really meant faulty battery. My 2S battery outputs a voltage equivalent to 1S for some reason.
yes you can do it but takes a little much time..
im using 2x turnigy 2s 5300mah 25 35c hardcase with parallel total 10.6a 2s battery.takes nearly 13 - 14 hours.
A friend of mine has a HK450 heli with 2200 mAh batteries, and uses this charger. It works. It won't harm your batteries. It will take 3 hours to charge the battery because it has a fixed charge rate of 800 mAh.
Floran PRODUCT ID: IMAXB6-FAKE this one is worth the price.go for it.You wont regret! Gerry01 yes most of the times it works well..But 2 of my friends have noticed that their battery performance decreased after they switched to this charger.Both of them use 1800mah 3s lipos..In my personal opinion this charger is perfect for lipos under 1000mah not for 1000mah<
Well, I guess it's not really a wonderfull thing... after all it's a 4.5$ charger. I also have Turnigy Accucel-6 50W 6A Balancer/Charger, it's very good, and another friend uses HobbyKing E4 Balance Charger, very good to, cheaper and easier to use.
the output with 9A. The maximum current of this output is 9A, however it doesn't mean the balancer will drain this current. The power supply increases the current in accordance to the energy amount that balancer is needing. So, if the balancer is only 1A, the power supply will deliver 1A.If you use a balancer with 4A, the power supply will deliver 4A. ok?
Hi,im interested to know if this charger can charge http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__9163__Tur nigy_1000mAh_3S_20C_Lipo_Pack.html ...And can it take its power from car battery. Thank you
Aaro
Yes to both questions, just above this question, there is a TAB marked ACCS, Succar was trying to show you that Car Cigarette Lighter Adapter for Battery Chargers Combo Price: $2.26.
Theoretically is should be ok based on voltage. Anyway you are producing about 20A from the power supply and my guess that this simple charger wont be able to handle that much amp. If you can reduce the amp to less than 5A then I think you are good to go.
It is fine for the voltage, as for the watts, Necromaster is incorrect, the amps at which you PC power supply is rated defines its ability to provide energy at 12V. Opposite to voltage, you cannot damage your battery or charger by connecting it to a power supply that is able to provide more current than what you need.
Yes, you can use the old power supply. Even the current produced at the power supply is higher than the balancer needs, it is not a problem because the charger / balancer will drain only the amount of energy that it needs.
I have tested this charger today with Turnigy nano-tech 2200mah Lipo Pack today. There was NO signal indicating that this charger charged my Pack. Frustrated!
Hi, guys, does someone can figure it out whether this charger can charger the pack Turnigy nano-tech 2000mah 3S 35-70 Lipo
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__1194 4__Turnigy_nano_tech_2200mah_3S_35_70C_Lipo_Pack.htm l?
Thank you very much!
Yes it can. It takes albeit around 2.75 hours to charge a 2200 (2200mAh / 800mAh = 2.75)... So I recommend a charger that outputs at least 2000mAh. Then the charging takes a little more than an hour.
if you have a computer home, open the case and there are a bunch of wires in yellow black red formation.
Take an unused yellow and black wire and yellow will be positive and black negative.
They supply 12v 500mah
thats a good idea but its simpler to just get a power jack, they also can have more mah, my one i got from a router has 1.2ah (1200mah) and i didnt even try looking for one that was higher so if you did look youd probably find a better one
Same problem happened to mine. 2S 1300mah lipo. Anyway I think that has to do with the adapter/power supply. I guess if we use adapter which is lower than 1A, it cannot charge higher than 1000mAh lipo. I might be wrong so I also looks for other explanation if there is.
SO, if the charger is for 800mAh and the battery is 1600mAh I just need divide the 1600/800. Is this the account? my battery is a 5000mAh. It will take 6:15min to charge?
If it takes your charger 1 hour to charge a 800mAh battery then it will take twice as long to charge a 1600mAh and it will take roughly 6.2 hours to charge a 5000!!
I haven't been able to fly my planes for a very long time because my family was in an economic crisis. I had nothing to do this christmas. I didn't get any gifts and i was sad because all this wonderful time was being wasted. Thanks to hobbycity they made my christmas a little more special. I had to sell my old charger for the money. I had no way of charging my lipos, i bought this charger and now i can go to the park and fly and do what i love.
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cliffh
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The charger comes with no instructions, but a quick check shows that the RED led means the charger is connected to 12 volts, the GREEN led means the unit is charging and the charging is complete when the GREEN led goes out.
The charger seems to work just fine and the price is hard to beat.
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It's just red led is power on.. Red led & green Led.. Power ON and charging.. Other indicators/audio??? None... It seems to charge at regular rate of around 500 mA so nothing else is needed.. If your batteries are in good shape (and they should always be) this little sucker is SO CHEAP! and effective. At this price and current draw you could use several at once.. For obvious reasons, limited to 2S & 3S. Balancing is well within the performance of other much more expensive units.. Definitely a buy even if, like me, you are just curious..
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majek
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It fully works with 3S only one day. After that something was broken and currently it charges only 2S battery packs. Balancing is good but very slow. It checks if all cells have the same voltage and if not - it will discharge cells with higher voltage before start real charge. It haven't indicator what is doing right now (balancing or charging), so you never know how long it will take. Consider buying a real charger instead of this.
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I am using this charger for more than a year and I am very happy with it. Individual cell voltages are in the 4.15 to 4.17 volt range. For me this is good, the 3 led version(AC or DC) overcharge cells 4.21 to 4.24 volt. I have no proof that can balance packs, but surely at abnormal voltage the green led blinks. The 3 led version can charge individual cell of the pack. Recently I made a connector and measured charging current 0.82Ah as advertised
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