My charging setup, the planning and build

[Superbad]

I take it your going to work the PL6 from a laptop

[murankar]

I got the adapter to. I had to do the laptop route when I completed the storage charge of my pulse packs. They were close but not quite there. I took them out of deep freeze, warmed them for a few hours then storages and balanced them. The pl6 is a little intimidating at first for me. The PC seemed to make it a bit easier.

[Superbad]

Ya its a awesome unit
When charging or store chaging it keeps all cells equal
Dosent try and pack 1 cell at a time like the cheap chargers

[murankar]

I can't wait to run a high charge rate to see what happens. I have that green multimeter with temp probe to keep an eye on the exhaust. I really like my para board, little on the big side but still like it.

Can't wait to see my charge times.

[Graham Lawrie]

Be good to see the results:)

When i built mine i did not have enough batteries of one type to try it at max power:) Still dont, but it reduced my charging times by half at least:)

[murankar]

I had 4 3S packs charging from storage to full. I hit a max of 10 amps at 3C took about 45 minutes. It was taking around 50 minutes per pack at 50w on my Thunder Power AC6. Much improvement. Combined (in parallel) I am at about 3 mA IR at room temp. Not sure how to tell a dead pack from a good pack yet. I am seeing serious power loss on my packs at about 11.8v, about 4 to 5 minutes of flying in IU1 and normal. I am not liking that one bit. I should be getting a solid 5 minutes at least. I will try again tomorrow and see what happens. I think the cooler weather may have had something to do with the flight times. We were at around 40 F. Tomorrow is going to be near 55 F. I think I will do a full 40 amps tomorrow and see how long it takes for the 4 packs in parallel.

[Graham Lawrie]

Not sure about your charger, but on mine you can monitor the resistance across all cells which i have found is a really good indicator of the battery life:)
When i first got it and checked all my batteries i was shaocked at the readings on one, and it explained a lot of issues i was having with my 600:) I ended up having to bin the battery:( it was that bad. Then i had to buy a new one:)

[murankar]

Mine does all the cells but in parallel it only reads 3 cells not 12. So my guess is that the resistance that being displayed as per cell is a combined resistance per cell. I am thinking ifbi want to get a true ir reading I would have to run one pack at a time.

[Graham Lawrie]

Mine is the same:) What i normally do is the same, check resistance individually to get a true view of the battery condition:)

[murankar]

Okay so then my thought was right. Well this is going to be fun. 4 packs one after another. Shouldn't take long.