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04.17.2008, 07:55 PM
Hello,
Just got my 10s charger (ok, two days ago) and I've finished wiring everything up and charging 6 packs. My feelings are that it was the perfect choice for me. At this time, my charging needs are very minimal. I'm basically only charging TrakPower 4900's, they are 2s packs and I wanted one charger which could charge two at once, the 10s makes it super easy. I wired up the appropriate harness in no time. Plug in the balance taps and the charge taps and let it rip. Two packs at once, 4.9amps. The LCD lets me cycle through the readings including charge rate, charge stage (fast, balance...)pack voltage, individual cell voltages, mAh in, "fuel" gauge, resistance of each cell and charge time.
All 6 packs went fine. I did have one small glitch which FMA support is trying to help me with. When the charger was set to "1C" it charged very slowly. When I manually set it to 4.9amps, it rocked on. I've yet to hook it up to a PeeCee, it still pains me that I can't use it with my Mac (and no, I'm not sullying my Mac with Windows, even with Parallels.) However the PC software really wakes it up with graphs and charts and much more detailed info.
Later this spring I'll be upgrading to 4s packs, charging two of those will start pulling some amps but so far the whole 300w estimate issue has not posed a problem for me. I'm using it with a CE 23 amp power supply.
DM
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