Turnigy 5000mAh 6S 20C Lipo Pack

 TechoArtur 11 points

Maybe use the 24hr support centre. I know they're very very slow, but they will certainly help you.

 Daniel 4 points

Nooooo! Never used damaged LiPo batteries unless your vehicle going up in flames (or your house) is the intended result.

 Gary 3049 points

No,the flight times in theory should be the same,the duration is governed by the mah of the battery,in this case 5000.The C rating relates to the amount of current you can draw from the battery,the higher the C rating the more current you can draw.So in this respect you can draw more current from the 40c battery than you can the 25c one which means in some circumstances the 25c battery could last longer but you wont get as much power.
Hope this helps.

 danikronos 660 points

hello, if you know of and skillful electrician could divide the battery into two parts

 TonyStark 1 points

The short answer is no... you would need to cut it open and perform major surgery in order to do it. You're better off just buying two different batteries* that way there is no saftey risk involved.

 Kevin 1 points

The short answer is no. It is possible but difficult and potentially dangerous. However it could be done.

 Lance 1 points

All 6 cells are connected in series being soldered to a single circuit board. Splitting that apart is very time consuming and just cheaper to get 3s battery. I have taken 2x of these batteries and paralleled them for a 10Ah battery.

 kendrick 11 points

Hi Like danikronos said you can split packs. I have had cells arrive with one bad cell in them and after careful work and practice I can either replace the bad cell or split the pack depending on the use I want to put it to. 80 watt soldering iron heat shrink tubing and a heat gun are needed in all cases, micro cutting disks for cutting the PCB at the end of the pack, extra power wires and balance wires will be needed for pack splitting. For me working with very large numbers of packs these things are practical for those thinking splitting a pack will save money it is a not cheaper but mor expencive a when new to opening packs to work on them you stand a high chance of getting burnt fingers!

 mrblucor 28 points

You are correct. The "C" stands for Charge per hour. A 5000 mAh (5 Amp hour) battery could supply 5 Amps for one hour. So, charging at 1C or 5 Amps will take one hour. Charging at 2C or 10 Amps would only take half an hour.

JB

 wayne 1 points

Ton of power smaller size then I thought will be ordering more

 kazuyoshi 5 points

We have been using on T-REX550E, is feeling pretty good. There is a decent sense of power, is less imbalance. Ideal for practicing anything else is cheap.

 Marcel 10 points

min 3.7 volts and 4.20 for max.volts works for me fine ,i still use batteries form 2008

 mrblucor 28 points

Max Voltage is 4.2 Volts per cell when over freezing temp, 4.1 Volts per cell if colder.
At the low end, 3.3 is safe. If batteries get below about 3 Volts, the cells can become dammaged.
JB

 jimzpsd 7 points

I use these same packs in my TREX 600 ESP, and I get 7 mins. of casual sport flying, the heli is all stock, I also pair these up in my 700e to make 12s, and they work nice there too, real pleased with them for the price.

 frankswd 92 points

I've had some bad luck with these batteries. Let's just the quality was inconsistant. I bought more then 5 of these before deciding that they weren't worh the fuss. Go with something else, nano's or GenAce or something for your Heli would be my advice. Heli's don't GLIDE!

 BiG-T 2 points

I use them on a Trex 600 with a Typhoon Motor I get 6-8 minutes of hovering light flying.

 Vincent 7 points

I fly these lipo's in a stock trex 600 esp and fly for 6 minutes, sport flying

 H-KING_SCOTT 5219 points

Some chargers will only recognise the pack if it close to 100% capacity, and therefore the voltage has to be input manually, however, also check the individual cell voltages first.

 paul 7 points

I tell the charger there are 6 cells then b4 it begins it does a check where I have to confirm if the scanned cells matches my inputted cells. normally it says 6s and 6s so i begin, but here it says 5s and 6s. I havn't even used the pack yet. Is it dangerous to continue charging despite this?

 kfactor69 5 points

what kind of charger do you have?

 rexdk 19 points

Hi, I would not try to do anything, it sounds like one of the ballacing wires has com loose. /Rene

 Trilska 3 points

I have had the same problem together with my Turnigy 4x6S Lithium Polymer Battery Pack www.link problem probably occurs because sece the charger measures the total voltage over all the cell, it can then mix up a good charged 5cell and a low charged 6 cell. If you also use the balance plug the charger will also monitor the individual cell voltage and throu that find out that it is a 6 cell instead of a 5cell. For my charger i just used the mode balance charge, same charge current as normal but monitor each cell and therefore it safely continues until each cell is at aprox 4.2V.

 Mark Harris 82 points

Charge your pack at 5s for a bit until the voltage increases, and then switch to 6s. You've probably over discharged your pack which could be unsafe.

 pool15 25 points

Try to charge the bad cell via the balancer connector with a current below 3A.

 strykerspeed 60 points

check that you haven't got a dead cell. if you don't the pack is likely over discharged. You can probably get it back though by doing a non balance charge on 5s for a bit to bring any low cells back up and then it chould detect 6S again

 Marcel 10 points

Don't do that.

 PAUL 5 points

for your safety i would not use the battery . you most likely have a bad cell. i had 2 turnigy lipo's that each had 1 bad cell. they are unsafe to use , be carefull. this is why you have a 5s reading on the charger. be safe don't use it !!!!!

 ACA-GT 2 points

I think that there is one bad cell

 systemspecialis 189 points

youre going to need about 24Amps *12Volts input to charge at 2C. A modified computer power supply is your best bet. I got four of these to charge for a 1/4 scale Spitfire. I need a 2 kilowatt petrol generator at the field to charge 4 of these at 2C !!

 Jewslox 65 points

I may be wrong, but wouldn't charging at 2C be 10 amps?

 systemspecialis 189 points

no it wouldnt! to get 1C charge from a charger with only 12 volts you need * 12 amps because this is 6S pack(about 24-25 volts)
If you had something like a charger that could handle 24volt input, then your charging amps would fall by half. Trust me, I am electronics specialist. I also checked with a clamp ammeter to see what the efficiency was. Allowing for losses in the charger, it tests out a 22-24 amps for 2C charging of a 6S pack. Now you know why I need a serious generator at the field. Charging 4 X 6S packs at the same at 2C (from 4 chargers) pulls 100 AMPS! total. Thats about 2500 watts from the generator.

 Tom 10 points

no i,m not. I,m charging it about 2 amps

 Tom 10 points

amsolutly right.

 DrGanjoo 36 points

30/Jun/2009

I already have another Zippy-H 5000 that has one female and one male so my ESC is already soldered that way. I tried soldering my own FlightMax 4mm connectors on this one but the odd thing is that the 10AWG wire on this battery is very very tight on the 4mm connectors :( can't get it to stick properly in the connector. So I decided to take a look at how HobbyCity had soldered theirs and strangely they are using a connector which has a much larger base (where the wire goes) than the FlightMax or HXT 4mm connectors that they are selling :(

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Can anyone please help in finding this bigger connector?

 ketnet 260 points

Why dont you just cut of some wires so it is less thick? That wont give much difference if you as me!

 anthony 9 points

yes mate, they are spot on! dont worry, good as my flightpower eons!

 CorollaGT 117 points

Wohoo thanks for the reply mate, this should be a nice addition to my ****nal of weapons hehehe :)

 b.palmieri 10 points

Yes i fly whith 2 pack on my trex 700 and 1 on my trex 600

 Burkhard 9 points

Hi!

My T-Rex 600 (with an Align Hughes 500 fuselage) is running with that LiPo. It works pretty good. After 6 minutes scale like flying it's only lukewarm and needs a reload of approximately 3.600 mAh.

Kind regards,
bs1961