How to charge/balance two TrakPower's

[BrianG]

Hmm, I was thinking you had two 2s TP packs (the ones in the cases). If you have that balancer and two 2s packs, you can use one balancer on both packs just like the diagrams on my lipo web page. Or, you can do the diagram they show in that pic, but that requires another balancer unit. If charging two 5s packs, you'd almost HAVE to charge them in parallel or you'd need a 10s capable charger if done in series.

Either way, you should still charge packs like this if they both have always been used together, seen the same number of cycles, have the same charge level, and seen the same usage.

Originally Posted by BrianG

Hmm, I was thinking you had two 2s TP packs (the ones in the cases).

Oh, yes, I do have two of the TrakPower Gold packs (2s) - the photo was sent to me by FP showing a demo of the config I'd have...their photo shows 5s packs but mine are 2s...

They did send another reply today answering the question of why not build a super adapter for the one VB do do it all, it explains it quite nicely...here is that reply:

--FP--
It would be possible to use one balancer with a special harness but the
balancer is designed to shut off if it detects to great of an in balance
& wont turn back on until the balance is within tolerance. SO with your
situation 2 would almost be a must unless the voltages on the cells in
both packs were very close.
--FP--


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