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Beaver Rat
04-03-2008, 08:34 PM
Hello guys,
I have a Thunder Power 610c charger and when I plug in my kong power battery into the TP balencing socket, everything works fine untill I begin the charge. I have the cell count set a 3s and the cahrging currant at 2 amps. I can read all the cell voltages in the battery menu and they are all about 3.8 volts. When I press CHARGE, it starts charging for about 1 second before it sounds an error beep and says either the cell count is wrong or the polarity is reversed. Do I need a polarity reverser for my Kong Power Pack on the Thunder Power balencing socket?

Thanks
heliMark
04-03-2008, 10:49 PM
the kongs have identical balance leads to tp and flightpower, that shouldn't be the issue, sorry i'm not all that familiar with that tp balancer but wanted to let you know it shouldn't be the polarity issue, does that charger only charge through the balance port or does it need standard leads through the deans as well? are those attached properly?

M3
fsusmithc2
04-04-2008, 08:50 AM
Both the battery main power lead and the balance tap must be connected to the 610 for it to charge. The only other reasons I can think of that might throw that error is if the wrong port on the balancer is used, but you said all cells read ok so that shouldn't be it. If you do have the battery main connected to the charger then it could be reversed possibly. If the charger is on and working then your input power isn't the problem either.

Let us know what you figure out.

P.S. This should probably be moved to the "LiIon, LiPo, NiCd, & NiMh General" forum.
Beaver Rat
04-04-2008, 04:12 PM
Okay, I actually figured it out about 1 hour after I posted this, I just wasn't able to get on HF. You guys were right, I didn't have the deans plugged into the charger. I just had the balencer plugged in. On my old DN charger, all you had to plug in was the balencer and it would charge through that. I didn't know that you had to have both plugged in. Why is this? Is it because the 610c supports bigger packs that charge at higher amps and you need thicker wire or things will get too hot?