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Capable of charging any size Lipoly battery up to 6 cells or at 10A. The ECO6-10 has an "Auto" fuction that sets the feed current automatically. The ECO6-10 includes an array of charging plugs and wires to suit almost any application and comes with JST-XH balancing plugs so you can charge and balance your ZIPPY/TURNIGY packs easily. Input power is 10-18v, perfect for car batteries or a pc/laptop powersupply.
Features; Microprocessor controlled High power and High performance circuit with maximum power of 200W Delta-peak sensitivity (NiMH/NiCd) Individual cell balancing Li-ion, LiPo and LiFe capable Ni-Cd and NiMH capable Large range of charge currents Fast & Store function, allows safe storage current Time limit function Input voltage monitoring. (Protects car batteries at the field) Data storage (Store up to 10 packs in memory)
Hello,
Can anyone help with calibrating this charger. I seem to be getting a different voltage compared to my voltmeter. I have tried following instructions in the files tab and have also tried following utube vids but neither seem to work. WHen I hold the start button down and turn the power on, it just goes into the charge menu and then tries to detect a battery which it then fails as there is no battery connected. Im sure my voltage is out by about .10V which is alot i think.
Thanks for any help. I have also tried holding down < and Start but it does the same thing :(
Hi James, For a 6S the max charge rate will be less than 10A .... probably around 7.5A. 200W = 25.2V (6S charged voltage) x 7.9A, but the charging voltage is slightly higher than 25.2V so the amps will be slightly less than 7.9A. Cheers, EA!
Will the HobbyKing ECO6-10 200W 10A 6S Bal/Dis/Cyc Charger w/ acc. charge the lifepo4 batteries, it says it will charge the LiFe type battery, is this the same as the Lifepo4 battery.
Hi Paul, Yes it will charge LiFe battery packs. LiFe is just the slang term for lifepo4 (LiFE = LiFePO4). The charger has a unique program just for LiFe packs that sets the max charged volts according to the number of cells. Cheers, EA!
I use this charger with a 218 watt computer power supply converted and affixed with female bullet connector ends. It works great and was able to charge 5 2200mah batteries in about an hour. It helps to buy the 6 lead connector and balance wires when ordering the charger.
You may have a faulty charger. I own one of these for almost a year now and use a home made power supply from a desk top PC and also the supplied alligator clips when at the field to connect to a car battery and I havent experienced anything like this. Have you tried charging a lipo or life battery?
Hi
I buy - 1year this charger...
yerterday I try charge an Pb battery, and don't appear anythink on display, and when I press buttons ear sound, but nothing appen.
what I can do to solve this?
best regards
Hi,
I have a problem with some brand new turnigy 1.6A 2s lipo batteries in that the charger says that they are too low voltage. I measure them, and they are 3.3V. As far as I know, that is not too low, so why do I get this message, and how can I fix it? I have 3 of those batteries and the problem occurs on 2 of them. Thankful for any suggestions! :)
you shouldn't get a lipo cell to below 3.75V for safe measures, so I think that's y ur charger telling u they're too low. next time don't discharge so low, 3.75 :)
Oh, I thought they sort of started out on 3.6 per cell (7,2 total on a two cell) and then dropped down from there? Also, these are new batteries, are they supposed to drop down below recommended voltage level just like that? I mean, how do I make them _not_ drop below a certain level with regular use?
no no no, you are killing your cells if you do that. all LiPo cells when full are 4.2V each, the lowest you should get them without doing damage would be 3.75V each cell. so a 2 cell Lipo would be 8.4V total, and the LOWEST it should be would be 7.2V
to keep it above the minimum, you should buy urself a battery checker/balancer from electrfly, o at least that's what I use. it automatically balance the lipos and tells you the voltage of Each cell. and to keep the voltage from getting too low, you should fly/drive for a limited time, say 5-10 minuites, and set that on your transmitter. then land ad check the voltage, and add about 1 minuite flite time until you have about 3.85V each, to give yourself some safety time just incase, and you should be able to get your plane back to you without doing damage to your battery. happy flying :) any questions just ask me
I see. Thank you so much for your answer! I've seen some 'tutorials' online on how to get the voltage back up so that I can charge them again. I understand that this is not very healthy for the batteries, but I guess I will have to try something like that (i.e. use the nimh-option just long enough to get the voltage up again)
sorry, its 3.7V that's the safe lowst voltage per cell. but like I said, u always want some left just in case. also, the batterychecker is really a must have, I think theres some here at HK as well
Thank you again! I was not aware of the fact that the lipos were this fragile and that they could be damaged by just 'regular use' and then leave them connected even with the esc turned off! I even learned that they could be damaged by being fully charged, and then stored! So now 'charged' them for storage, and that is 3.75V apparantly... A strange thing, though, is that my programming card for the motor/esc only as a cut off voltage ranging from 3 to 3.5. That does not go so well with what you are suggesting I guess ... This is for a buggy, but in terms of battery care, that should not matter, so I guess I put it at 3.5 to get at least closer to what you suggest ... Cheers!
yes , it is capable of charging Lifepo, just change the voltage settings in lipo mode to the specific voltage for Lifepo and it will show Lifepo on the charger , and you are good to go , it also shows this in the included manual . great charger
My charger only brings 2s packs up to 8.3v and it makes a scary smell when you try using the discharge function, smells like its going to catch fire. other than that its not a bad charger.
Hi! can I calibrate this charger anyway?-When the charge current is max(10 Amp.) the difference of voltage on display and real is about 0,25 Volts.Thanks!
no way of calibrating ,what is in the leads of the multimeter? I asked aswell in support and they said it is factory calibrated. I have checked with meter and what it says on charger and i had simular results, but i was using a cheap meter and found that no matter what i was checking it was wrong. hooked up to car battery and checked that in voltage was the same as the scantool and they where same. I have found that i have had .02 volt difference between packs when charging in parallel so i dont think it would be necessary to calibrate. it is good to see people actually checking though.
Hi chang-won, I just had a look at the swarm site for a buddy code and they have one that reduces the price to $30.86. The buddy code is: F3D9A280-9047-4D90-808F-5D6C2D7D5B0E
If this gets censored or you can't get it to work, go to the swarm site (hk.rc-international.info/swarm) and type the name of the charger into the search bar. Cheers, EA!
Hi ElectricAussie, I have read the QA train wreck on the T20 pro, this is why i asked the question, Thankyou so much for your reply and helpfull honest advice. Cheers radley!
Hi radley, The best match from HK for this charger is the T20-Pro 220W, but if you read the reviews you'll see it's a QA train wreck. Way too many people reporting blown-up/dead power supplies in the first few uses. You would be better of with the SuperCon 12.5A power supply (PRODUCT ID: GTP-A8-PS). Cheers, EA!
I've recently got this charger and I'm using a paraboard parallel board to charge 2x a 2S Lipo. I'm loading the turnigy 6k Mah hard case batteries at 10A but it finishes at 5000Mah loaded. Not the 12000 I'm expecting. Can this charger work with parralel loading boards? The board goes onto the 6S balance connector on the loader.
Cheers
Tim you need to go into the settings menu on the charger,
You can then turn off the 5000mah max charge function,
I had to do this also on my charger,
I'm charging 4x 2s 5200mah on a balance board with this charger with no issues.
update, this charger was in spec and it was my fault as the multimeter i was using was a cheap canadian tire meter, used a Fluke meter and compared to another charger and all is good. and i also had a bad connector so that was also giving me problems , excellent charger for the money . thanks again
dear HobbyKing how do we calibrate this charger, would be an awesome charger if possible to calibrate , thanks and great charger other than a few small problems
Customer Reviews
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HarDik
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11 thumbs up!
Quality of manufacture very good!
First.... charger has a discrepancy in a voltage, about 0.04v... This discrepancy can damage my LiPo (NiMH too) batteries... But i dont know How to lead calibration....
Second.... During a discharge at once will turn on FAN, and noise as the Boeing or other Reactive plane! Indoors not probably is! It doesn't depend on temperature, at the moment of discharge the battery charger temperature was 28C
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HarDik
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8 thumbs up!
Quality of manufacture very good!
First.... charger has a discrepancy in a voltage, about 0.04v... This discrepancy can damage my LiPo (NiMH too) batteries... But i dont no how calibration...
Second.... During a discharge at once will turn on FAN, and noise as the Boeing or other Reactive plane! Indoors not probably is! It doesn't depend on temperature, at the moment of discharge the battery charger temperature was 28C
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Volver_mos
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6 thumbs up!
My came with non working discharge function. Everything else is working great.
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gardiolo
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6 thumbs up!
caractristiques identiques l'accucel 6 avec une capacit de charge plus leve ( 10 Amp au lieu de 5). Format et poids imposant.
Le modle reu est partiellement dfectueux, fonctionne correctement en charge mais pas en dcharge ( L'intensit de dcharge reste fige sur 0,00 Amp dans tous les modes y compris en cycling ) Dommage... Mais bon un chargeur c'est surtout fait pour charger, alors les dcharges se feront en vol !!!
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henrik4
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6 thumbs up!
It works quite well.
The unit I received didn't have a USB cable or any way to calibrate individual output.
Fan is always on to the max while charging. Very noisy unit.
Charging 5S 5A. Once charged the balanced values were within
40 mV (0.04 Volts) apart.
Would have given 4 stars if I found a way to calibrate it.
Definitely prefer iCharger family!
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