Stormbringer Posted September 29, 2023 Share Posted September 29, 2023 If it aint broke dont fix it 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted September 30, 2023 Author Share Posted September 30, 2023 Just to report back on this, i changed the capacity cutoff to 15000mah and its charging away lovely now, its showing the 10000 packs have taken 11000 and something and are at 16.76v so they are about done, happy to have gotten this sorted without the expensive of another charger, there was a setting to turn this feature off altogether but thought it best to leave some sort of safety feature in there 🙂 thanks again for the help 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted September 30, 2023 Share Posted September 30, 2023 Glad you got it working how you want it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted September 30, 2023 Author Share Posted September 30, 2023 It takes 2 1/2 hours to charge the 10000 ones, im surprised at how long it takes, but i am getting a good run time out of them too so i suppose they are relative to 1 another 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 Continuing on with this, i have decided to buy another charger anyways as it was taking 4.5-5 hours to charge my 4 batteries (and i have another 2 coming) and it was just ruining my fun, i would go out and run the car late morning and then its getting dark before i can go out again, so have bought a sky quad charger, so hopefully it will just take 2 hours to charge all my batteries. The charger i bought from aliexpress charges at more wattage and current between 11-18 v than at mains power, a while ago i bought another charger on here second hand that i think can be used as a power supply as well as a charger, so if i hook my aliexpress charger up to that, would that work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 it depends on the wattage of the power source mate I think you need a 250 watt power source to run the sky charger at full whack I have the sky quad and the sky twin port chargers and was using a 400 watt power source to run both but its been ages since ive used those as i got this 1 https://wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/313691/ each port is capable of 100 watts so 400 watts total Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 can you put a link to what 1 you are getting ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 (edited) 50 minutes ago, Stormbringer said: it depends on the wattage of the power source mate I think you need a 250 watt power source to run the sky charger at full whack I have the sky quad and the sky twin port chargers and was using a 400 watt power source to run both but its been ages since ive used those as i got this 1 https://wheelspinmodels.co.uk/i/313691/ each port is capable of 100 watts so 400 watts total It was the htrc aliexpress charger i was wanting to run off a power supply, the sky 1 appears to give 400w 12a on each channel when plugged in this is the sky 1 i have bought https://www.modelsport.co.uk/product/skyrc-t400q-ac-dc-charger-1346891 this is the cheap charger that i have currently that i was thinking about using a power pack to power for more power https://www.googleadservices.com/pagead/aclk?sa=L&ai=DChcSEwiW5sPFkNiBAxVclGgJHZZ_DUAYABAPGgJ3Zg&ae=2&gclid=Cj0KCQjw1OmoBhDXARIsAAAYGSGGX53LKdRrJRDgq_lCSeK3sn8yelomuUYGao4sy8-uZ1LQOHvcm4gaAmh6EALw_wcB&ohost=www.google.co.uk&cid=CAESVeD2JV7CyayWp2sHWA49t8bTAz63gbuDHb5t5rubZIU-WoujGRYDUYpM4luSmgfep9ER9DIsZGYNGoy8WEUs3muGkRX94J60ng7kZ9V9mz2w5j6N5Cg&sig=AOD64_3XRLbYKwv5KlqSH4mTtRuFM5IOsg&ctype=5&q=&ved=2ahUKEwj71rvFkNiBAxWtVkEAHXwTCGsQ5bgDKAB6BAgEEAk&adurl= i paid a lot less than £55 from aliexpress Edited October 2, 2023 by wolfie1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 I decided on the sky 1 over the 1 you linked as it has more amps Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 Fair enough mate Ive had my 1 a year or 2 now and the sky is newer design I dont think it will charge a 4s at 12a as its still 100 w per charge port i think it will do 4s at 6.75A but it should do 4 batteries at that amps but it will prob do a 2s at 12a Oh my sky quads diferent from that 1 as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 17 minutes ago, Stormbringer said: Fair enough mate Ive had my 1 a year or 2 now and the sky is newer design I dont think it will charge a 4s at 12a as its still 100 w per charge port i think it will do 4s at 6.75A but it should do 4 batteries at that amps but it will prob do a 2s at 12a Oh my sky quads diferent from that 1 as well After looking into chargers, there is not really the greatest selection of them going about. 6.75 is still better than what that htrc 1 does and can charge 4 at the same time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 2, 2023 Share Posted October 2, 2023 yep it will do 4 at a time to get higher wattage chargers you really go up in price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted October 2, 2023 Author Share Posted October 2, 2023 I did like the look of that maestro 1 but only did 2 at a time 7 minutes ago, Stormbringer said: yep it will do 4 at a time to get higher wattage chargers you really go up in price Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
froggy8 Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 i really like skyrc ones, the d400 gets my vote or if you can find one, the dynamite sport quad charger. that was the last one i used and i really liked that one too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted October 3, 2023 Author Share Posted October 3, 2023 So this arrived today, was surprised how fast it arrived especially since i didnt pay for express shipping 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 Ooohhh nice mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted October 3, 2023 Author Share Posted October 3, 2023 All i need to do now is go flatten some batteries and test it out now, but was busy tonight as was helping the farmer at the top of the track doing some bailing and its raining for the rest of the week now 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 3, 2023 Share Posted October 3, 2023 yeh rain here for rest of week as well 😞 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie1 Posted October 17, 2023 Author Share Posted October 17, 2023 Here is another question in regards to charging, so the charger i bought will charge up to 12a but when charging 4s as i was told it wont charge more that 6.75a or something like that, in the settings you can change the charge amps to 10a for a 10000mah battery and 8.4a for a 8400mah battery but since the charger will only charge a 4s at 6.75a is there any point setting it to 8.4 and 10000, could just leave it at 12a as its only ever going to charge at 6.75 which is below the capacity of the battery or have i got this wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted October 17, 2023 Share Posted October 17, 2023 I could be wrong but i think your right mate 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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