Diesel31 said:SilentAV8R said:Diesel31 said:I have it. It's basically a powerstrip. I paid $89 and I think it's overpriced. The only thing it does is deliver power from your provided power source to the P2 battery. The P2 internals do all the "smart" stuff (re:balancing and peaking). I wouldn't use this strip on anything other than P2 a battery because it does not have a balance adaptor.
Honest opinion, I would not have bought this if I had known what it was. The strip can be made for less than $5.00. Furthermore, I charge on a Hyperion Duo charger - it's about as bomb-proof as you get for a lipo charger and it false peaks using this strip. I've gone back to using the slowwww DJI charger. It takes a lot longer, but I'm getting better, fuller, more accurate charges out of my batteries. I started bringing my batteries to work and charging them under my desk, then fly after work.
Someone will come out a fast charger, it's just a matter of time...
Are you charging using a Lipo setting or Pb battery, which basically makes your charger into a 12V power supply. The P2V, P2, and P2V+ packs all have internal circuitry that monitors the charge. The "charger" they supply is a simple power supply rated at 12.6V and 4 amps.
I've done both. The provided instructions indicate using the pb battery setting since the lipo setting can false peak. It false-peaked under both settings.
Don't mean to derail the thread, but I wanted to respond back to Silent AV8R regarding the P2 multi board. On a whim, I charged my batteries today at a 7 amp 3s lipo setting and I got full charges out of both batteries with no false peaking. I'm going to continue to use the strip, but closely monitor the batteries' performance.
...I wanted to give it a fair assessment if it's working as advertised.