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[Puttinstankonia]

Thank you guys for all of your advice. With your help i am now running in a 1/10th scale tourer
lehner 4200 xl basic
Jaco Foams
Quark 125B
and LiPo 4s

If you would like to see pics and vid of the car just let me know how to put them up

[Hayden]

http://imageshack.us/ for your photos
and as for videos I don’t know do a google search and type video hosting you’ll find some are free
love to see it:027:

[Serum]

Yeah, that is one very fast tourer, with an XL4200!!! be sure to shoot a vid!

[Puttinstankonia]

Yea that car is nice and he is runnin 4s with me but one of my batteries was mislabelled in the pack and the bridged connection is giving me 16.8 volts....
I was trying to charge my pack earlier and the charger kept cutting off sayin battery volts too low... does this mean i have to buy new LiPo's?

[BrianG]

Originally Posted by Puttinstankonia

I was trying to charge my pack earlier and the charger kept cutting off sayin battery volts too low... does this mean i have to buy new LiPo's?

What charger was it? Some require you to enter the number of cells, which may be how the charger calculates the number of cells. If you entered 2S, but the pack is really 3S, then the charger will throw that error.

[Puttinstankonia]

its the red triton charger and it will only allow me to charge at 14.8 volts... but I am runnin 16.8 by mistakes.(packaging mislabeled) so do u think that the LVC on the Quark worked and my charger is the problem or is it the batteries them selves... is the LVC on the quark automatic?

Originally Posted by Puttinstankonia

its the red triton charger and it will only allow me to charge at 14.8 volts... but I am runnin 16.8 by mistakes.(packaging mislabeled) so do u think that the LVC on the Quark worked and my charger is the problem or is it the batteries them selves... is the LVC on the quark automatic?

if you are running a 4 cell lipo its nominal voltage is 14.8, its max voltage is 16.8, and its discharged voltage is 12 volts(assuming you set 3.0 volts per cell cutoff, the lowest you want to go)

you have to program the lvc on the quark.

[coolhandcountry]

If you didn't program the lvc on the quark it cuts at 2.7 volts per cell.

[Puttinstankonia]

So does that mean my cells went too low and i would need to purchase more or try a new charger first?

Originally Posted by Puttinstankonia

So does that mean my cells went too low and i would need to purchase more or try a new charger first?

what voltage are your cells at? if they are above 12 volts fully discharged, then you should be fine. 16.8 is the max voltage of a fully charged cell.

[Puttinstankonia]

it seemed as though it might have been at 10. somethin volts and i didnt really pay attention to it because the charger kept giving me the error... do u suggest i try a new charger before purchasing new batts?

[coolhandcountry]

If the volts are to low you can try to drop a cell rating and charge them up to above the 12v mark. PUt is on 3s for the 4s cells. Then swap them to 4s to finish them off. I would charge them slow and keep an eye on them.

[BrianG]

Or, charge them in NiMH mode at a low current and make sure the charging voltage doesn't get any higher than 4ish volts per cell. Once you get t0 about 4v/cell, you can switch to lipo mode. Like CHC said, you MUST keep an eye on them...

[Procharged5.0]

And keep a camcorder running to catch the action just in case.

[Puttinstankonia]

so im gonna try out the Nimh thing and then when the volts get high enough change over to the LiPo and see where i can go from there thanks for the advice ill let you know what happens