Is my old lipo charger any good?

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I have dynamite prophet sport lipo Charger. Just 2s 3s only. It charges my lipo fine. Will it charge a bigger capacity fine? I know it’s not the best but $ tight for the moment.
 

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I had one of those many many moons ago.

You have a max charging rate of 3A between 2s/3s.

So at 1C you can charge up to a 3S 3000mah battery. More than 3000mah 3s will take a significant amount of time.
 
Charge rate really only affects how fast you can charge the battery, your patience is the practical limit here.
 
How about a 5000mah 2s lipo? Will it be fine or do I HAVE to buy a new charger?
 
You could charge the 2s 5000mah battery but only at 3A MAX.

That would mean you are charging roughly at 0.5C so it's going to take some time AND that prophet charger has a timer cutoff. So you would have to recycle the power to get it to restart.
 
It'll just take longer to charge.

Not sure about that charger, but my knockoff iMax has 5000mah set as the default amount of "capacity" it will pump out before it shuts off. It's mostly useless, so I just disabled it.

You may have a similar setting.
 
I have dynamite prophet sport lipo Charger. Just 2s 3s only. It charges my lipo fine. Will it charge a bigger capacity fine? I know it’s not the best but $ tight for the moment.
Keep an eye on your electric bill or go solar. :p
it will take long to charge
 
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