Reddit reviews Hitec 44167 X4 AC Plus 4-Port AC/DC Multi-Charger
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Reduces charging time, but does not balance the cells, this mode only charges the battery to approximately 90% capacityInput Requirements: 100-120V AC or 12 - 15 Volts DC, 20 Amp MinimumMonitors individual cell voltage, keeping the cells within an acceptable voltage range and charges the pack to peak capacityUsed for long-term battery storage Adjusts the voltage level so the battery will not be damaged during long term storage
This is the charger I use:
http://www.amazon.com/HiTec-44167-Plus-4-Port-Multi-Charger/dp/B005MW0WZO
and here is a video of a guy talking about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Jgtlo4Kc8Q
There is no difference battery charging, the difference is how the charger is powered.
An AC charger can be plugged directly to an AC socket on the wall.
A DC charger requires a 12 volt DC power supply, like a full size car battery or some sort of power supply to convert from 110v AC to the 12v DC the charger requires.
Actually, all chargers are DC, the AC ones just come with the DC power supply built in.
Wow, that's a lot of duty, sounds like you should source locally.
You will need a 20 amp charger and, if required, a parallel charging board to charge 2 batteries at the same time.
I had a look at the products on amazon.ca and I couldn't find anything.
This thing is terrible, on the surface it looks like it would work but it wont do 2C as it only has 50 watt channels.
There maybe someone here who knows of a good canadian supplier but Quadcopter people work with large amp/multi battery charging, you might find more a response for the canadian market there.
Tattus are really nice, but they can be pricey, graphenes work really well, and nano techs aren't bad either, Nanotechs are a little cheaper than the Tattu and Graphenes, any of them would be a good choice, I do think that Tattu would be pretty durable, as well as the graphenes, they both seem to have some protection measures built in such as the steel plates in the Tattus
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B005MW0WZO/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1462293523&sr=8-1&pi=SX200_QL40&keywords=4+channel+lipo+rc+charger&dpPl=1&dpID=51u7%2Bki0NRL&ref=plSrch
That's the charger I use, however I think there's a 1 channel version if you don't need 4, it does a good job though and will automatically trickle charge(it basically drops the amps when the battery gets closer to full, pretty standard thing for lipos, you can fast charge if needed) and balance well
Also have you already built it ? I run raceflight and it's a night and day difference you may want to look into getting a CC3D revo to do raceflight
So I looked into transistors and I'm not sure that this is what I need? They seem to act more like switches in a circuit from what I can tell. Did you mean a capacitor? To boost the power output? or am I going in the wrong direction all together? lol
As for the charger, oh yes it'll charge just about anything I think