Newbi battery/charger question

[grayhamby]

I have a new Turnigy accucel 6 and started my first charge(balanced) on my Turnigy 5000 mah 4S 35~70C nanotek battery today. It showed the 4 cells were balanced at 3.8 volts/cell. The charge rate chosen by the charger was .5 amps and the voltage was 15.28 total. The balanced charge went on for about 45min. adding 105+ mah to the pack. I couldn't watch it any more so my question is how long would it have taken to complete a full charge? Would the accucel 6 have beeped when through? The basic charge rate would be 5 amps( 5000/1000) wouldn't it. What would the 1C for this setup be. I'm still not at ease about Lipos, chargers, esc's etc. Any help is appreciated. graydds

[785boats]

graydds.
These chargers don't automatically set the charge current. All you have to do is set the charge current to 5 Amps to be a 1C charge.The 0.1A is just the factory default setting. You will also need to set the capacity (5000mah) & the # of cells (4) in the menu.

IMPORTANT... Make sure you do this in the "BALANCE" charge menu. Not in the "CHARGE" menu. And then always select BALANCE mode when you charge a battery. Otherwise your packs won't get balanced.

The thing is though, the charger is only rated to 50Watts. So even though you select 5A charge rate it will only charge a 5000mah 4s pack at about 3.5Amps. So don't be alarmed if that's all you see on the screen when it starts charging. A 5000mah 2s pack would be charged at the full 5A though.

Paul.

[grayhamby]

Thanks Paul. After I run my tunnel for several minutes and put it back on accucel 6 and attempt to go to storage charge, a message appears "High Voltage". It comes up also when I try the discharge mode. Am I just not using enough of the charge? Thanks graydds