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[Ghostrider]

Does anybody out there have a step by step explanation of how this charger works? I look through all these posts and nobody seems to have clear directions. :arggg:


I am trying to charge for the first time my EVO20 4900. :shock: What do I actually program into the charger. I figured out the balancer but not sure about the charger.

Will the charger beep or something when charging is complete or will it just keep charging?

For as much as this combo cost, it sure is not user friendly.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Sam

[Teej]

This is off the top of my head - don't have the charger here but I just did this last night. Try reading this in conjunction with looking at the manual - should figure it out.

Do your charge OUTSIDE and do not leave unattended.

Assuming you have the batt plugged into the (edit) balancer (/edit) and are seeing it "do its thing" - (blinkin' red lights)...(sounds like you're this far from your post...)

...connect data cable from charger to balancer

...connect power cable from charger to pack

...hit 'SEL' several times on charger until it says receiving info from balancer and then shows you the highest (CX) and lowest (CY) cells, and other info on that screen.

hit 'sel' until you get to 'charge' page (should only be once if I recall)

hit 'ent' (tap the charge/ent button, but do not hold it in)

You'll get a blinking cursor on the "memory" number. Don't worry about it for now - tap ENT again. (you can set up to 10 (?) "favorite" charging programs)

Use +/- keys to set # of cells (don't know from your post how many cells you're using) and tap 'ENT'

Use +/- to set the charging current (suggest 4.9A on 4900).

Press and hold charge/ent for several seconds. It should go to charge mode, then attempt to verify the number of cells with how many the balancer is seeing and then it will start charging.

It will charge until it thinks it's done unless one of the timeouts occurs. You'll notice along the way that the charging current may drop to .3A - it will do this if it detects > than (default) .085 volts between highest and lowest cells. It will proceed at .3A until the cells are within .030 and may then ramp back up depending on how much charging is left.

Assuming the cells are fairly well balanced, what you'll see is it will maintain your chosen (4.9A) current until the pack hits 4.2 volts/cell (ie 21v on a 5s pack). It will then switch to CV (constant voltage) mode and the amps will decrease until it finally goes into terminal balance mode somewhere above 4.1v/cell.

When done, your balancer will make a 3 descending chime tone several times, the charger will quit saying it's finished, etc.


It gets a little more involved if you're trying to, as I am, charge 2 5s packs together as if they were 1 10s pack....but I don't think you're doing that with trexes...

Teej

[Ghostrider]

Teej,

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

Finaly somebody explains it to where I can understand it!

I appreciate all the help.

Sam

[Teej]

OH....above I said "...batt plugged into the charger and see it doing it's thing..." I _meant_ balancer. Editing.