pbilt024

My Feedback: (17)

Balance charge or regular charge at 1.7 amps with that battery and you'll be perfectly good. Charging a 1700 mah at 1 c is 1.7 amps, 2500 mah @ 1 c is 2.5 amps, 5000 mah is 5 amps. etc

no reason to discharge life batteries

racingluxury

Man I used 5amp the other night to charge that battery on normal mode and it only took 30 mins. I noticed it started at 5amp then started to count down till 0 then finally beeped.
Did I damaged it?

Checklst

I think not.......I been hitting mine with 5 amps for 6 months.........Balance charge only.......like you noticed it takes 5 amps then tapers off to lower amps fairly quick, never had a batt puff up or any other problem..........time will tell, but so far my balance/ batt meter says all is well..

pbilt024

My Feedback: (17)

Just looked that battery up, it shows a charge rate of 5 c, which would be 5*1.7= 8.5 amps . So you can charge it up to 8.5 amps without hurting it.

racingluxury

Thank you guys. I've learned a lot from you guys.

cjtyped

My Feedback: (1)

Ok, I have the same charger. I can live with the .5c charge rate. Something I don't understand is the labelling/decal on the charger that shows what the flashing light sequences mean. I have yet to have the flashing agree with the decal. I just connect the charger to my battery and wait until I hear the charging complete/annoying beeping. Anyone else experience this? I have had no problems otherwise.

2walla

My Feedback: (10)

Another happy accucel 6 user. After a couple of years, i went to an accucel 8. It is nice to have the extra capacity on larger packs. I consolidated chargers and bought a racersedge prime 400. Same programming and works great 200 watts per side.130 bucks...i still use the accucel on occasion.

catboater

My Feedback: (51)

If you really good info on charging A123 or any other brand of LiFe packs go to hangtimehobbies.com and do some reading. Great info there for newbies.