Need some help with determining wheather my micro PZ plane batteries are still good or not.
01-06-2011, 04:52 PM
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Need some help with determining wheather my micro PZ plane batteries are still good or not.
Hey everyone,
Its been sometime since I have posted on this site or even visited it. Having a family and getting really involved with my job because I got a promotion and a raise can hamper a guys RC hobbies haha!
Anyway I still have all of my Micro planes and helis (Night Vapor, Sukoi, mCX, mSR.
I have 10 1S 3.7V lipos that are registering between 4.12 and 4.16 volts. However I am only getting about 2-4 minutes of flight time out of some of them.
How can I tell if they are bad? Is there some way of reviving them to full performance?
Also, at what voltage should I store any lipo wheather small or large? Full, half or min charge?
Thanks
Its been sometime since I have posted on this site or even visited it. Having a family and getting really involved with my job because I got a promotion and a raise can hamper a guys RC hobbies haha!
Anyway I still have all of my Micro planes and helis (Night Vapor, Sukoi, mCX, mSR.
I have 10 1S 3.7V lipos that are registering between 4.12 and 4.16 volts. However I am only getting about 2-4 minutes of flight time out of some of them.
How can I tell if they are bad? Is there some way of reviving them to full performance?
Also, at what voltage should I store any lipo wheather small or large? Full, half or min charge?
Thanks
01-06-2011, 06:11 PM
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RE: Need some help with determining wheather my micro PZ plane batteries are still good or not.
They can be tested with a discharger, charger or cba or other device , but you already have a good idea they are getting tired. There's nothing that can help them. (retire to a lower current apps)
Store at around 3.8-3.85 volts.
Store at around 3.8-3.85 volts.
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RE: Need some help with determining wheather my micro PZ plane batteries are still good or not.
I have a charger, its s Bantam BC6 charger. How do I test those?
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RE: Need some help with determining wheather my micro PZ plane batteries are still good or not.
Sounds like you stored the batteries fully charged. This is what killed them is that is what you did. When not using the batteries, they should be stored at approx 3.85V per cell. The Bantam BC6 has a storage program for this function.
To use the Bantam BC6 charger and the 1S batteries, you need these 2 parts:
http://www.rcaccessory.com/ultra-mic...ryadapter.aspx
http://www.rcaccessory.com/jstbecchargecable.aspx
With this parallel adapter, you will be able to charge 4 of them at the same time. Simply add up the capacities of the batteries. So if you had 4 120 mah batteries, you would use the Lipo Charge program, set to 1S, and the charge rate would be .5 amps. Simple.
RC Accessory, Inc
US Bantam Importer and Service Center
Tampa, FL
To use the Bantam BC6 charger and the 1S batteries, you need these 2 parts:
http://www.rcaccessory.com/ultra-mic...ryadapter.aspx
http://www.rcaccessory.com/jstbecchargecable.aspx
With this parallel adapter, you will be able to charge 4 of them at the same time. Simply add up the capacities of the batteries. So if you had 4 120 mah batteries, you would use the Lipo Charge program, set to 1S, and the charge rate would be .5 amps. Simple.
RC Accessory, Inc
US Bantam Importer and Service Center
Tampa, FL
