LiPo charger

Posted by Eric Coronel on June 15, 2014 at 12:58pm

Very new to copter flying. How on earth do I keep the batteries at half charge? I have a 3dr iris that came with a lipo charger.

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    • Michael Burmeister December 17, 2014 at 8:31am

      That doesn't sound right.  Here is picture of both charging.  In all case they are red until done.

      Black One

      White One

       

      On the white one you did hookup the XT60 connector and the JST plug.

       

      Checkout this post also: http://diydrones.com/group/iris/forum/topics/charger-opinions

       

    • Michael Burmeister December 18, 2014 at 3:39am

      Seems to me that the charger is not seeing your battery.  Either the XT60 connector is bad or the JST connector.  But you say the battery charges after a few hours and it would say about 12.5 volts on the IRIS.

      On my white unit one of the wires going to the XT60 connector came off as it was a bad solder connection.  The unit would go into charge and then all of sudden the green light would start to flash and all the red LEDs alternated.

       

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    • Michael Burmeister December 17, 2014 at 5:02am

      Which one do you have.  I got a replacement and it is Black where the original one was White.

       

      For the black one the three LEDs turn red when charging and turn Green as each cell is charged.

      For the white one the single LED blinks green before you plug it in and then solid red while charging.

      It turns Green when fully charged.  I don't use them anymore as it takes to long to charge a battery and they don't have a storage mode.

      http://imaxrc.com/

       

  • Eric Coronel June 24, 2014 at 7:06am

    Thank you for all the responses.

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    • Eric Coronel June 16, 2014 at 7:42pm

      Thanks for the reply. How do you make sure to not go below 80% capacity while flying? For example, every time I fly I connect to Mission Planner, and I monitor the battery level displayed in the MP screen, it goes down to 80% really quickly (2-3 minutes or so). I appreciate your input.   

    • Eric Coronel June 24, 2014 at 7:07am

      This is the information I needed the most, thank you!

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      Gary Mortimer June 16, 2014 at 10:29pm

      +1 On a timer I can't stand flying TX without them. I also never fly a multi without one of these 

      29652.jpg

      http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/store/__29652__On_Board_Lipoly_L...

      Yes there is telemetry but a loud noise works very well ;-)

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    • Eric Coronel June 15, 2014 at 8:18pm

      Thanks for the advice, will look into it!

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