LiPo for Dummies

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

Be careful buying batteries as I got caught out and confused by RC batteries when I first used Lipos.  I did not know about swapping the connections round.

 

[Floperator]

Be careful buying batteries as I got caught out and confused by RC batteries when I first used Lipos.  I did not know about swapping the connections round.

Thanks for the tip, think I'm OK with the lipos I just bought as they are wired the same as my existing NiMH batteries (i.e wrongly, apparently).

Just a lot to take in atm and electrickery has never been my forte at all. Currently experimenting with just auto charging a nimh I don't care about too much.

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

If they're sold as airsoft lipos you're fine.  I found a big lipo for my support weapon and didn't realise that it was wired 'wrong' for aegs.  

I got bloody confused with my new charger at first.  I found that the manual over complicated everything.  Youtube vids made much more sense and showed how simple everything actually was.  

 

[Floperator]

Yeah I think I need to get over on yt and watch a ton of videos, I just don't know what I'm doing at all. E.g there's a 5 pin socket in the charger for balance charging, but the balance leads on my lipos only have a 3 hole plug. Which of the three ways of inserting this plug is the way that doesn't burn my house down? ? ?

 

[concretesnail]

The balance port will have mire connections as its made to take up to 4s lipos.

It's should be clearly labeled as to the pin numbers and the balance plug usually has a pair of protruding ridges to match the port. Match the black/negative to the negative mark in the port and you should be able to see all the cell voltages displayed in the battery meter section of the charger.

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

You need different balance leads for batteries with different numbers of cells.  You have I assume a two cell battery, so you need the littlest plug socket which has three metal prongs in it.  Put the tiny arrow shaped things on the plugs lead into the slots provided in the socket.  

Here's a shit pic of mine plugged in properly: View attachment 90449

If you take a pic of your charger, someone will no doubt tell you where to stick the leads in etc.  

 

[Tactical Pith Helmet]

Slightly less shit and more informative pic.  The lead is plugged into the top right socket as per the two cell setting on the diagram.  

Dig that classic B6 action.  

View attachment 90450

 

[Badgerlicious]

They won't always be sepearte plugs. I have the asg charger that's very similar to the s65 and it simply has one 6 pin socket, and you attach the balance lead to the righthand most pins. Read the manual on how that lead should be plugged in, though it should just throw up an error and not charge if it's plugged in improperly. 

 

[Floperator]

A few videos helped massively, I managed to get all of the LiPos storage charged last night, and am charging the rest of the NiMHs at work right now.