I was looking to see about Rapid charging the batteries for the Vision... Not sure
the original charger is 12.6v at 4A
the battery is 5200 mAh
so doing the math a 5200 mAh battery is 5.2 Ah thus a 4 A charger will charge this battery in 1.3 hours
Now that I have 2 batteries I can see the type of end needed to charge with and can easily make them... I can get a housing 3D printed and put the male ends in from cut material...
so that all being said...
This charger that comes with the phantom Vision is it just a dumb charger?
or is it a smart Lipo charger that balances the battery?
My other Lipos have a second connector out of them that connects to my smart chargers Imax B6's and uses that other connector (4 pin) to give feedback to the charger for balancing etc..
my assumptions are that the phantom Vision battery has the chip inside to balance the cells IE the "smart" battery.... if that is trued then the charger is just passing it current and that is all... thus the charger may not even be a lipo charger just a regular power supply which supplies a constant 12.6v @ 4A to the battery and when the battery has had enough it feeds back on the charger to stop the charge / or put it into trickle mode... much like any decent NiMh charger will do
so what I am getting at is.... is it possible to make a + and a - end for the Vision battery and use a charger like the Imax B6 to offer up a 12.6V charge at say 6 or a 7 A charge thus charging the battery faster?
thoughts...
the original charger is 12.6v at 4A
the battery is 5200 mAh
so doing the math a 5200 mAh battery is 5.2 Ah thus a 4 A charger will charge this battery in 1.3 hours
Now that I have 2 batteries I can see the type of end needed to charge with and can easily make them... I can get a housing 3D printed and put the male ends in from cut material...
so that all being said...
This charger that comes with the phantom Vision is it just a dumb charger?
or is it a smart Lipo charger that balances the battery?
My other Lipos have a second connector out of them that connects to my smart chargers Imax B6's and uses that other connector (4 pin) to give feedback to the charger for balancing etc..
my assumptions are that the phantom Vision battery has the chip inside to balance the cells IE the "smart" battery.... if that is trued then the charger is just passing it current and that is all... thus the charger may not even be a lipo charger just a regular power supply which supplies a constant 12.6v @ 4A to the battery and when the battery has had enough it feeds back on the charger to stop the charge / or put it into trickle mode... much like any decent NiMh charger will do
so what I am getting at is.... is it possible to make a + and a - end for the Vision battery and use a charger like the Imax B6 to offer up a 12.6V charge at say 6 or a 7 A charge thus charging the battery faster?
thoughts...