Hey Guys,
Thought I'd share some initial thoughts on this charger. I'm new to the icharger realm, coming from a Revolectrix Powerlab 8x2 with bump controller, and a gensacearespammers IMARS IMARS D300.
My main reason for this charger was trying something new, with a higher balance current and high discharge rate. Prior to this I was using an ISDT FD200 discharger.
Today was both my first time using a second channel to discharge, and at a higher rate than 8amps worth a 8000mah 6S.
This was also my first time making a resistor bank. It consisted of twelve 100 watt 8ohm resistors. My meter gave a reading of .73ohms in parallel. I was pretty nervous trying this method, and had a semi successful 45amp discharge on 6S. Battery was pretty toasty at the end of it as was the resistor bank.
The FD200 took somewhere around 30 minutes to discharge a full 8000mah 6S to storage voltages of 3.80volts per cell.
The "sketch master 1200" (resistor bank) took roughly 10.5 minutes before starting to ramp down, ending at 3.5v per cell. Of which, the charger gave me an "error connection lost" message that I forgot to take a picture of.
Thought I'd share some initial thoughts on this charger. I'm new to the icharger realm, coming from a Revolectrix Powerlab 8x2 with bump controller, and a gensacearespammers IMARS IMARS D300.
My main reason for this charger was trying something new, with a higher balance current and high discharge rate. Prior to this I was using an ISDT FD200 discharger.
Today was both my first time using a second channel to discharge, and at a higher rate than 8amps worth a 8000mah 6S.
This was also my first time making a resistor bank. It consisted of twelve 100 watt 8ohm resistors. My meter gave a reading of .73ohms in parallel. I was pretty nervous trying this method, and had a semi successful 45amp discharge on 6S. Battery was pretty toasty at the end of it as was the resistor bank.
The FD200 took somewhere around 30 minutes to discharge a full 8000mah 6S to storage voltages of 3.80volts per cell.
The "sketch master 1200" (resistor bank) took roughly 10.5 minutes before starting to ramp down, ending at 3.5v per cell. Of which, the charger gave me an "error connection lost" message that I forgot to take a picture of.
