If I was to use two five cell packs, two mini hobby regulators and two switches going into different sockets on the RX, what would happen if one battery pack failed? Would the good pack try and charge the failed one or would the use of two regulators stop that?

thanks
jason

Hi Jason,

Check our Red's battery clinic: http://www.rcbatteryclinic.com/ then click on the "Parallel operation..." link on the left hand side.

Red is somewhat of a battery expert... I think you can trust his explanation on this.

Gordon

Hi Jason:

I have seen those comments by "Red" before. Very good points. In addition, there must be a diode or some other blocking component in the regulators, since you cannot charge thru the output side of the regulator. It won't accept a charge.

So it would appear that a failure of one side should not affect the other side, in addition to the points made by "Red".

Might give Tony Tehan at Minihobbies an e-mail query to see what his comments might be.



Tom

My info is that Tom is correct. The regulator will stop the other battery discharging through it.

The Mini Hobby regulator has, I am told, (source BVM) two "channels" so that failure of one "channel" will not cause power failure.
BRG, David Gladwin