Yes you can, look up parallel charging, hence the parallel charge board and parallel charge lead. The charger detects the voltage and cell count through the balance lead not through the charge lead so the charger would just see those 2 1700mah batteries as 1 3400mah battery.
That would be series charging you don't want to do that.
Where did you get those balance leads? These them? https://www.progressiverc.com/parallel-6x-balance-adapter.html
Yes sir. Those are it. My order was either enough to qualify for free shipping or it was high enough that I didn't notice the shipping charge. I can't remember exactly. I desoldered one of the connectors plugging the balance leads in first though. Oops. I put a new plug on it and now I'm good to go again.
Oh yeah always plug in the charge leads first.
Yeah I can't remember if I did it in the wrong order or if I didn't wait long enough to plug in the balance leads to let the batteries equalize or what. But I plugged in the balance and it instantly got hot and unsoldered and hurt my finger LOL.
I love the fact that I can do this twice from storage charge in an hour and have twenty four 2s packs , or in series twelve 4s packs ready to go. Then I can go out and run for awhile.
That is the craziest thing I’ve seen. I can’t believe you can actually do that. That is way beyond my knowledge good for you
would you mind sharing which DC power supply you are using? I have been looking into getting one. Thanks
I'm charging these at 2s (8.4 volts) at 30 amps. 8.4 volts x 30 amps = 252 watts. It's basically seeing one, 30,000mah 2s battery.
Yeah, I don't how that works either. I thought chargers either hit the max amp limit or the max watt limit. I haven't had enough cell count/mah size on a single pack to push my chargers beyond either limit, so I'm kind of curious too.
That is how chargers work, but I am only charging at 252 watts, which is well under the 700 watt limit. I am at the maximum, 30 amps though as that is all the amps that my charger can produce.
I wonder if you can safely wire those in parallel and/or series to get more V or more A into one output for a big charger. I know the higher output chargers, especially the multi-port ones don't put out their max unless the voltage is 18+. Then I don't fully understand if you have to have more amps at the higher V going into the charger than what it's putting in the packs. They don't specify that kind of stuff in the manuals very well.
I remember reading somewhere that you couldn't wire these in parallel or series to increase voltage or amperage, but I cannot confirm that you can or cannot do it. If you are able to wire them in series you would have a 24 volt, 85 amp, 2050 watt power supply. The amps from the power supply to the packs do not directly correlate. You need to convert the amps from the power supply to watts, then convert the watts back to the amperage of the packs.
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