David Holland 2 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Afternoon, gents. Having seen a reference to parallel charging and the boards that allow such things I have splashed a tenner (don't tell the present Mrs H) on one that will allow 6 batteries to be charged simultaneously. It seems to work a treat and as I use a lot of 2200/3s packs it will cut down on the time I need to sit staring at the whole caboodle while charging is in progress. While I appreciate that I can only charge packs of the same voltage together, it is not clear from the very basic instruction sheet whether it is possible to charge packs of differing capacities together. Does anyone have an answer to my dilemma? Many thanks in advance, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Harris - Moderator Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Only the voltage matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattyB Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Yep, capacity is irrelevant since the charger sees only one "logical" battery equal to the sum of the capacities of the individual packs. Some more detailed info on parallel charging here. Edited By MattyB on 08/06/2016 16:52:22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toni Reynaud Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Provided that the starting voltage of the packs is not too different, it shouldn't matter. They will be seen as one big battery. The individual cells in each battery will charge to the lowest voltage of the related cells in all the parallelled batteries' lowest cell ( if that makes sense!) assuming that you are doing a balance charge. ie all no.1 cells will be the same end voltage, all the no.2 cells will be the same end voltage and so on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Mackey Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 From a few years back.........http://www.modelflying.co.uk/forums/postings.asp?th=14697 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Holland 2 Posted June 8, 2016 Author Share Posted June 8, 2016 Thanks fellas. I'm about to try a mixture of 1800 and 1300 mah packs. The 2200/3s packs I charged earlier seem to have balanced better than when charged individually, but I might be imagining that. There's always something new to learn with this electrickery stuff, isn't there? Regards, David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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