BC6 and TrakPower Lip problem

[TonyM]

Help please - I just bought a BC6 and 4900 Trakpower Lipo's. Unfortunately the BC6 to Trakpower balancing cable is out of stock so I can't balance at the moment.

So I decided to charge without balancing. I set the BC6 to Lip correctly 2s 7.4V etc but when I press START to charge I get an error message (Battery Vol Err Cell Connect) which says I have bad leads. I tried charging a NimH pack and this was fine, so the leads must be OK. I then charged the Lipo with my other Prolux charger (on Lipo of course) and this charged the battery without any problem.

So, battery OK, BC6 charging leads OK - anyone had a similar problem? Must I have the balancing cable for the BC6 to charge Lipo's?

Cheers Tony

[jim76]

did you have a balance connector for another brand of battery connected to the charger?

If you have any balance cable plugged into the charger but not the cells, it won;t charge. Just unplug the balance cable and it should be ok.

Did you choose the basic lipo charge option, or the balance charge option?

[TonyM]

No balance charge cable connected and basic charge selected.

Cheers Tony

[mark christopher]

only had this if a balance lead is left in the port, have you had the bc6 from new?,

[JCJC]

Unless I am misunderstanding you are charging off 12 volts, we found our BC6 would give this error if our 12v car battery was lower volts (>11.? something)

[JJ The Boat Wizzard]

My Charger Give This Error , But When I Balanced The Lipo It Worked Fine Then , dose this about every 10-15charges and then you have to balance the lipo again.

[TonyM]

Many thanks all. It is new, I'm charging from the mains and a balance cable has never been connected.

It sounds like the most possible answer is the one about getting this error message when you need to balance. I guess I will have to wait until I get my balance cable and try then.

Cheers Tony

[J_WOODY]

I've had this problem, but it was when the balance harness was left connected to the charger, i've also got a trakpower pack that the charger refuses to balance no matter what, even though it will balance on other chargers, hope you get it sorted

[TonyM]

Thanks James for lending your balance cable at Southport this weekend. It fixed the problem. Obviously the BC6 doesn't like to undertake a basic charge on TrakPower Lipo's. Balance charge fine.