Horatio
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As per title:
What do you use to charge up your 6S batteries?
For my requirements when racing, I needed a system that could pulse charge my Nicad and Nimh cells for complete charging, whilst not overheating them or damaging the chemistry of the (very expensive) matched packs.
I still have that charger today! I use it for all my radio battery packs and receiver packs of all different sizes. It's an Eagle Racing Super Linear Pulse. Circa 2000 ish. It was about £200 back then.
For my lipos, I bought a charger primarily for my drone requirements. Initially, 4S was typically the the maximum voltage I dealt with, so priorities have changed a fair bit since then - even my drones are 6S now.
My Sky RC Quad 200 is an excellent charger, but it's really got it's work cut out for it charging 6S packs - especially 5500 mah + size packs, because even at 100w (if I charge just 1 at a time) the charge rate isn't 1C - it's more like 0.7c - thus it can take a while charging my packs!
It strikes me that 100w per channel isn't enough to charge larger capacity 6S packs in a timely way.
I have considered another AC/DC charger - something like this:
Channel 1 can charge at 400watts! Or you can distribute the power 200/200, 300/100 - etc. It seems like an excellent bit of kit.
It's also dawned on me that I might be missing a trick by not just going getting a DC charger, for the sake of a decent 25v power supply.
It's a more expensive option by the time you add up the cost of a DC charger and separately purchased power supply, but then you are looking at these kind of chargers:
1000watt on a channel!!!
1500watt in total.
This is about £200.
And a half decent power supply (useful for a bunch of other stuff - especially if you're racing and need to power everything). £242
Ouch.
So, I'm looking at option 1 as - the Sky RC D400 as a comparatively economical way to meet my ever increasing requirements.
What do you use to charge up your 6S batteries?
For my requirements when racing, I needed a system that could pulse charge my Nicad and Nimh cells for complete charging, whilst not overheating them or damaging the chemistry of the (very expensive) matched packs.
I still have that charger today! I use it for all my radio battery packs and receiver packs of all different sizes. It's an Eagle Racing Super Linear Pulse. Circa 2000 ish. It was about £200 back then.
For my lipos, I bought a charger primarily for my drone requirements. Initially, 4S was typically the the maximum voltage I dealt with, so priorities have changed a fair bit since then - even my drones are 6S now.
My Sky RC Quad 200 is an excellent charger, but it's really got it's work cut out for it charging 6S packs - especially 5500 mah + size packs, because even at 100w (if I charge just 1 at a time) the charge rate isn't 1C - it's more like 0.7c - thus it can take a while charging my packs!
It strikes me that 100w per channel isn't enough to charge larger capacity 6S packs in a timely way.
I have considered another AC/DC charger - something like this:
Channel 1 can charge at 400watts! Or you can distribute the power 200/200, 300/100 - etc. It seems like an excellent bit of kit.
It's also dawned on me that I might be missing a trick by not just going getting a DC charger, for the sake of a decent 25v power supply.
It's a more expensive option by the time you add up the cost of a DC charger and separately purchased power supply, but then you are looking at these kind of chargers:
1000watt on a channel!!!
1500watt in total.This is about £200.
And a half decent power supply (useful for a bunch of other stuff - especially if you're racing and need to power everything). £242
Ouch.
So, I'm looking at option 1 as - the Sky RC D400 as a comparatively economical way to meet my ever increasing requirements.
- How do all you guys & girls charge your kit?
- What are you preferences around AC vs DC charging?
- Tell us why you use what you do?
- Is the kit reliable?
- Have you experienced charging related disasters?
- What should we avoid?
