Thursday, September 23, 2021

Parallel Balanced Charging


Initially, I do not see any need to charge many batteries because I just buy extra battery chargers.

They are tedious to set up and take up so much space. Now I start considering chargers will more wattage such as the ToolkitRC M8S with 400 W charging or 18 A.

Although useful to speed up charging large batteries, I rarely have those except for car batteries. I charge car batteries at the maximum that my Imax B6 can charge, 6A. It took overnight.

Now that I have an outboard motors and an ebike, I need faster charging to reduce the time needed to charge.

I built my ebike batteries using sets of 6S cells. Two batteries connected in parallel. Each battery is made up of 2 sets of 6S cells connected in series.

To charge, I charge each 6S cells by providing JST connectors for charging. I need 4 sets of chargers, but have only 3 working B6 chargers of various types.

I have a mains powered B6 which is yhe most stable. Two others uae AC adaptors rates for 6A but only useable at 1A. I have a DC power supply that can provide 12 V 4 A source.

To prove more than 6A, I need a car battery as the cheapest although I have an expensive Lipo 6S 5AH battery. ToolkitRC chargers have the recycle discharge mode to discharge higher than 1 A.

Still, to make full use of the high wattage charger, we need the parallel charging board. 

https://youtu.be/LT8mzZWKXqA

Wednesday, September 22, 2021

Complete Review of ToolkitRC M8s Charger

The problem with ToolkitRC chargers are that they were not well calibrated. In this video, he explains how to calibrate the voltage readings.

Not sure if it solves the overcharging problem of earlier versions of M6 and M8 chargers. 

https://youtu.be/qAHBGW17uNY