Caveat on the Equilibrium Mini V2 charger!

[Chuck Plains]

I bought one as I wanted to fly during the bank holiday weekend after my Imax B6 went dead the other day when left to charge a TX Nimh pack. I checked it after 2 hours and the screen was dead. And it never worked again.

So, as I wanted to fly, I had to nip to my nearest model shop and grab what I could find.

That was the Equilibrium Mini V2.

The first pack I charged with it stopped at approx 60% full initially. So having checked tha lipo with my checker, I put it back on charge again and it pretended nothing had happened and charged it to 98%.

But the next pack ot itself OVAECHARGED to 4.28v per cell !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Holy !!

And it was only then that I found that the Mini V2 has NO DISCHARGE OR STORAGE FUNCTION !!!! In spite of the fact that it mentions discharging more than once in the manual.

So since that moment I have had to slavishly watch it, rather than allowing it to get anywhere near 99% and am currently ( ) flying with 95% capacity packs. I always have my charger operating right at hand and never it leave charging any longer than it takes to make a cuppa.

Hopefully my new Accucell 6 will arrive tomorrow or the next day. Accomanied by great sighs of relief all round as I'm champing at the bit wanting to storage my batteries! I hate leaving them with part charge!