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Originally Posted by fidspeed (Post 579172)

Everyone else uses them as a pack. Everyone else charges them as a pack.

Not Completely true i'm afraid i have a pair me and my boy use them singly in mardaves and we charge our own that way as long as they are fully charged each. they will be balanced as a pair (ignoring negligible difference in chargers (if charged on different chargers) if used as a pair later and found to wildly out of balance then you more likey have a failing lipo that no balancing will remedy

I know others who do this too mate.

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Originally Posted by fidspeed (Post 579172)

no offence intended to anyone and quite happy to be put in my place and learn more about the black art of lipo tech:thumbsup:

Thats all Im trying to do as well.
I think too many people just go along with what "others" do and dont try to understand things for themselves (present company excepted of course ;)) and I always recommend to people to be inquisitive and learn as much as possible.
By trying to do this myself I am hopefully better equipped to avoid making the mistakes and being a danger "to those in my pit area"! :yawn:

Cheers for the post, and lets all enjoy our Lipo's :lol:

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Originally Posted by mark christopher (Post 579177)

incorrect, each cell is 3.7 volts, 5400mah, wired in serries which is how we use them, you have 7.4 volts and 5400mah, 5.4amps is 1c
if you wire them in parallel then you would be charging at .5c as you would have 3.7 volts and 10800mah

Cheers MC. That makes sense to me now.
Sorry for the confusion :blush:

No worries mate.

As Mark said, each cell of your saddles is 3.7V (a single LiPo cell is rated at 3.7V).

It's the same theory as those NiMh we used to use, just then each cell was 1.2V and you needed 6 of them to get the voltage.

So to bump an olde post
It has to be like this to charge 2x 2s saddle packs as one 4s pack

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...na/Capture.png

AS I undersdtand it Kiwi, you're right.