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<DIV>How they do it? Do they use the balancing connection to provide charging current to the lowest cell?</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV class=signature id=signature>--<BR>Vicente "Vince" Bortone</DIV>
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I know the FMA chargers feed the lowest cell. I have the 4S and it seems to work pretty well. I have the 10S on order but the web chatter still seems to favor the TP.<BR> <BR>Anthony<BR><BR><BR>
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Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:23:09 -0600<BR>From: chadnortheast@shaw.ca<BR>To: nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org<BR>Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] LiPo balancing<BR><BR>I am pretty sure most of the balancers are of the current bleed type. I know TP is, FP appears to be as does Hyperion and a few others. These are the kind that get hot :)<BR><BR>Schulze's new charger (NEXT is the brand), is of the type that moves current from the high cells to the low cells, so its a bit more efficient during the charge. I should have one of these to use this year from Schulze quite soon.<BR><BR>To me the balancers of today are more of a safety device than a pack maintenance device. Until your pack is really old and worn out I think the balancers are not accurate enough to provide good cell voltage control and the bleed type cannot keep up to a charger anyway. They are really good safety devices when connected to a charger which terminates the charge when the balance
r sees any sort of problem with the pack.<BR><BR>They all seem to work ok to one degree or another. I have hopes that the new Schulze charger/integrated balancer will work better than the rest, but at $600 US its twice the list cost of a TP 1010/210 charger balancer package. I can't say I have been overly impressed with the precision of the TP system, but its charged my batteries probably in the 1000's of times quite reliably, so maybe I should be happy LOL!<BR><BR>Chad<BR><BR>----- Original Message -----<BR>From: John Konneker <jlkonn@hotmail.com><BR>Date: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 3:04 pm<BR>Subject: [NSRCA-discussion] LiPo balancing<BR>To: Discussion List <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org><BR><BR>> <BR>> I am under the impression that there are a couple different <BR>> balance charger schemes. I'm going to guess one is to <BR>> "balance up". That is to keep switching to the low cell <BR>> and kind of leap frog to full charge.&nb
sp; The other would be <BR>> the discharging type balancers that you simply plug in a fully <BR>> charged LiPo in and it discharges the high cell down to match <BR>> the other cell. Then is there a third type that someone <BR>> lowers the high cell while charging? I don't know any of <BR>> this and am only guessing. The reason I ask is I have two <BR>> charges that balance. One does a really good job and the <BR>> other not as well. I guess what I'm saying is I need a <BR>> lesson in how this stuff works.<BR>> Thanks!<BR>> JLK </BLOCKQUOTE><BR>
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