Author Topic: Turnigy Accucell-6 Balance question (Read 649 times)

CharlesF · « **on:** April 11, 2009, 06:09:33 AM »

I received my Turnigy Accucell-6 charger on Thursday and have been trying it out on various batteries. It seems to work fine . . . but the Balance feature does not appear to work.

I have been testing it on 2 of my 1600 mAh 3s LiPo batteries I bought about 18 months ago. On both of these it gives an error "cell voltage" after about 30 seconds in Balance mode, yet the indicated cell voltages are 4.18, 4.18 and 4.21 which seem pretty close to me

Does anyone else have one of these? Am I doing something wrong?

Charles
UK

John Cralley · « **Reply #1 on:** April 11, 2009, 08:01:41 AM »

Charles,

I'm no expert (far from it) but your batteries appear to be more or less fully charged. Maybe if you discharge one of them somewhat and then try the charger in balance mode, it will then do a proper charge and balance.

John

CharlesF · « **Reply #2 on:** April 11, 2009, 08:06:16 AM »

Thanks

I'll try that

Crist Rigotti · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2009, 08:46:42 AM »

At what rate are you trying to charge them? You could turn down the charge rate to something like .2A then try it again.

CharlesF · « **Reply #4 on:** April 11, 2009, 10:23:10 AM »

I have tried various rates

What I did in the end was charge each cell up individually via the balance connector. I'll keep thinking about it

Charles

Alan Hahn · « **Reply #5 on:** April 11, 2009, 12:15:07 PM »

Quote from: CharlesF on April 11, 2009, 06:09:33 AM

I received my Turnigy Accucell-6 charger on Thursday and have been trying it out on various batteries. It seems to work fine . . . but the Balance feature does not appear to work.

I have been testing it on 2 of my 1600 mAh 3s LiPo batteries I bought about 18 months ago. On both of these it gives an error "cell voltage" after about 30 seconds in Balance mode, yet the indicated cell voltages are 4.18, 4.18 and 4.21 which seem pretty close to me

Does anyone else have one of these? Am I doing something wrong?

Charles
UK

If they are already charged up, the charger may not want to have them put back on. So the complaint may be that they are already charged.

Dean Pappas · « **Reply #6 on:** April 11, 2009, 12:59:52 PM »

The charger may be cranky about seeing greater than 4.20 on any one cell???
Let us know how that partial discharge/recharge works.
Dean

CharlesF · « **Reply #7 on:** April 11, 2009, 01:38:12 PM »

I'll try that tomorrow

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