Maxxamps batt always out of balance

[jocktheglide]

should one always tell the charger that it has a lower mah than indicated on battery to be safe? Lets say you have a 5400mah battery and you tell the charger 5200 would that help from overloading the cells?

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by jocktheglide

should one always tell the charger that it has a lower mah than indicated on battery to be safe? Lets say you have a 5400mah battery and you tell the charger 5200 would that help from overloading the cells?

Since you are using a balancing charger you will be fine. The balancer communicates with the charger and will interrupt the charge if one cell goes under or over voltage during the charge. That is the main benefit to using a charge with a built in balancer (or using and external charge thru type balancer). This is mainly a safe guard to prevent lipo heat/fires from being over charged, or over discharged. You can set the charger to a lower mah, but you will find it will only charge the pack to that lower setting. If you have a 6000mah pack, and set your 6i to 3000mah for a 3 amp charge the charger will only put 3000mah back into the pack, so you will have a half charged lipo. That is one of the only problem with the cheaper hyperions, they do not have separate capacity and current settings. I used to use the 5i chargers alot, and if I desired a lower charge rate, I would just let the charger cycle once, the restart it again. To be honest, just use the correct mah setting and charge at 1c.

[jocktheglide]

AHH..THX lincpimp...I didnt know if the charger has a sensor when to stop putting in mah like nimh they stop it basd on heat and other factors.

Originally Posted by lincpimp

Since you are using a balancing charger you will be fine. The balancer communicates with the charger and will interrupt the charge if one cell goes under or over voltage during the charge. That is the main benefit to using a charge with a built in balancer (or using and external charge thru type balancer). This is mainly a safe guard to prevent lipo heat/fires from being over charged, or over discharged. You can set the charger to a lower mah, but you will find it will only charge the pack to that lower setting. If you have a 6000mah pack, and set your 6i to 3000mah for a 3 amp charge the charger will only put 3000mah back into the pack, so you will have a half charged lipo. That is one of the only problem with the cheaper hyperions, they do not have separate capacity and current settings. I used to use the 5i chargers alot, and if I desired a lower charge rate, I would just let the charger cycle once, the restart it again. To be honest, just use the correct mah setting and charge at 1c.