Problems charging TP5000mAh pack

[crudd-bucket]

Hi guys,

I am having trouble trying to charge my Thunder Power 5000mAh pack. I am using a TP1010C and 210 balancer.

Balancer info reads.

High cell: 3.517V
Low cell: 3.488V

Output voltage of pack: 21.156V. I had a friend tell me I've discharged it to far.

I left the pack connected to the balancer over night, encase it needed to bleed balance. When I try to charge it, it times out on the initial charge (timeout set to 15 minutes).

I tried to charge at 0.5A without the balancer connected but it won't let me... or I'm doing something wrong...

Can anyone help me on this? I saw on the Thunder Power site that they have a new firmware version available for download which includes a LiPo recovery function... might this work? (I dont have the charger to computer connection lead, so would have to get that first)

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

- Luke

[chris696]

try charging it at 0.3 amps with the balancer connected. instruction manual says this for packs that are too far out of balance so is worth a try

[crudd-bucket]

Hi Chris,

I tried that method but it still times out on initial charging :(

Any other ideas maybe?

[crudd-bucket]

Its ok, got it sorted, just initial charged it a couple of times to bring the voltage up slightly. Solved! :)

[chris696]

glad to hear it and will remember that one when anyone else has the same problem