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Hi guys could do with some help here, I have a imax b6 charger and I'm trying to charge my Evo battery which is 1500mah •11.1v • 20c

 

now on my charger I'm setting it at :

 

lipo 1.5a • 11.1v (3s)

 

and all it it keeps saying is ' low voltage)

 

ive looked in the manual and it says ' the voltage is lower than which is set, plz check the number of cells in the battery pack

 

any advice appreciated 

 

thanks

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Basically your battery is technically dead, the cell voltage has dropped too low. Or there is a fault in the batteries wiring.

 

did you leave it connected inside the gun?

 

what voltage is it saying your battery is at??

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I dont advise this but it does work i too have the imax B6:

 

Set it to charge a NiMH as it doesn't care what the voltage it blast it for about 10mins until it goes up a few volts, stop and retry the Li-Po Balance setting. it seem to almost trick it.

 

It does work ive done it once* and the battery has been fine for over a year...

like i said dont do this alot as you know, it could f*ck it up royally and maybe explode. try at own risk.

 

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the cells dropped below 3v & that is what the warning means

 

you can try to boost the cells CAREFULLY on the Nimah setting to a 6.9v on 7.4v lipo

or 10v in your case on a 11.1v

Once at that level it might charge the lipo once again when it is above 3.0v

 

see these vids:

 

 

or more involved on a 11.1v

 

 

 

don't let your lipo's run too low - more so on 11.1v coz a low 11.1v @ 9.0vstill packs some juice

a low 7.4v near 6.0v is very very noticeable

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I hope that trick for saving Lipo's work....I got my B6 arriving in a week or so.  Battery check turned up in the post yesterday and confirmed that since I have been using a Nurpol 'balance' charger it's done in 4 of my lipo batteries.   (Cell 1 is ok, but cell 2 on five of the batteries are between 1.8 - 3.0 V)

 

Of the two 1.3mAh batteries I bought a week or so ago one is not charging so the Nuprol charger must've done it in....lucky for me the 2nd 1.3mAh battery I bought is ok.  (I bought another charger while I wait for the B6 to arrive...so putting one of the 1.3 on my new ASG Balance charger has charged only 1 battery correctly..the other 4 won't charge)

 

I was about to cut my losses and spent £££ on a bunch of new batteries...but I will try the trick in the above videos.

 

Picture I have shows the offending Nuprol charger!!!

20180505_104356.jpg

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21 minutes ago, Monkman said:

I hope that trick for saving Lipo's work....I got my B6 arriving in a week or so.  Battery check turned up in the post yesterday and confirmed that since I have been using a Nurpol 'balance' charger it's done in 4 of my lipo batteries.   (Cell 1 is ok, but cell 2 on five of the batteries are between 1.8 - 3.0 V)

 

Of the two 1.3mAh batteries I bought a week or so ago one is not charging so the Nuprol charger must've done it in....lucky for me the 2nd 1.3mAh battery I bought is ok.  (I bought another charger while I wait for the B6 to arrive...so putting one of the 1.3 on my new ASG Balance charger has charged only 1 battery correctly..the other 4 won't charge)

 

I was about to cut my losses and spent £££ on a bunch of new batteries...but I will try the trick in the above videos.

 

Picture I have shows the offending Nuprol charger!!!

20180505_104356.jpg

 

 

I have a f*cking picky mains powered B3 type like your Nuprol

(freebie oem from Gunfire with GF points)

sometimes it would be really really ar$ey

only one light would come up charging

 

On the odd time it was ar$ey I found either of these two options helped a little

 

either turn on charger then plug in LiPo = ar$ey

turn off charger with LiPo still attached, wait for lights to fade

Then turn charger back on - two lights charging two cells - WTF ????

 

I eventually got it to work but what a ball ache compared to B6 or even cheapo B3 with sep psu

Might be worth a shot, nowt to lose - your issue might be different to my picky B3 though

but yeah was a bit of a w@nky charger imho & B6 is way quicker to charge batteries too

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what is it with those 3 led type chargers and killing lipos, that's the 4th i've heard of doing it including my own (my proper charger is old and doesnt do life batteries so i had it for that)

 

a proper lipo charger and a battery doctor (other brands are available) are seriously worthy investments when it comes to keeping your batteries alive.

 

also, tamiya connectors make me sad :(

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Well the B6 worked...managed to save all 4 of my Lipo's, even the 2600mAh which cell 2 was on 1.8v.  All fully charged now.

 

Imax B6 is worth every penny.  Nuprol charger is now in the bin, where it belongs!!  :)

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Imax B6 cracking chargers , even better considering how cheap they are compared to many others ! 👍

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