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Finnster · 10.05.2009, 11:53 AM

I had a couple of trades w/ Travis and it worked out well (sold him new lipos.) I will say he did contact me a few weeks ago complaining about the packs and they won't charge as 6s.
First off he was confusing me w/ someone else, as the packs I sold were earlier this year, but I wanted to help him out anyway as the original trade was smooth and he seems like a decent guy.
Second tho was I tried to explain to him, over several PMs, it was mostly due to the inflexibility of his charger, not necc something wrong w/ the pack. Auto-detect will default to the lower cell count if the voltage reading is in an area of overlap for safety reasons. (ie 16V: could be 5S @3.2v/cell or 4S @ 4V.)
Most chargers you can override it to go to higher cell count, but didn't seem like the 109 could do that. I'm not sure he really ever bought into that point and seemed convinced the cells were bad. IDK either way. He told me he was off to talk to whomever sold him the cells.
I haven't used a AF109 specifically so I don't know how/if you can override the cell count.

Hopefully you get this worked out ok. My money is on misunderstanding.

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Finnster KillaHurtz Offline Posts: 2,958 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bucks Co, PA	10.05.2009, 11:53 AM I had a couple of trades w/ Travis and it worked out well (sold him new lipos.) I will say he did contact me a few weeks ago complaining about the packs and they won't charge as 6s. First off he was confusing me w/ someone else, as the packs I sold were earlier this year, but I wanted to help him out anyway as the original trade was smooth and he seems like a decent guy. Second tho was I tried to explain to him, over several PMs, it was mostly due to the inflexibility of his charger, not necc something wrong w/ the pack. Auto-detect will default to the lower cell count if the voltage reading is in an area of overlap for safety reasons. (ie 16V: could be 5S @3.2v/cell or 4S @ 4V.) Most chargers you can override it to go to higher cell count, but didn't seem like the 109 could do that. I'm not sure he really ever bought into that point and seemed convinced the cells were bad. IDK either way. He told me he was off to talk to whomever sold him the cells. I haven't used a AF109 specifically so I don't know how/if you can override the cell count. Hopefully you get this worked out ok. My money is on misunderstanding.