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8 Hey everyone,
as far as I can tell, all the LiPo chargers i looked at so far need to atleast confirm that you want to charge the packs. I was wondering if there is a charger that can be fixed to a certain setting that could then switch via Relais or something else between the packs that have to be charged.
Would be a neat feature to charge packs that have too much difference in the Voltage to be charged in parallel or to switch between multiple parallel chargers
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8 Yeah thought so too. I am rather expirienced with Arduino itself and switching is of course one of the simplest tasks. Designing a charger of course isn't. So i would need a charger that preferably has several LED's instead of a LCD display to tell me when the charging process is finished. I could measure those outputs to tell my Arduino when a charging process is done and it should switch to another batterypack or parallelcharging board.
If i had a charger like that the Arduino prototype could be done in a day:
Does anybody know a charger that has these characteristics?
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8 Hmm judging by the pictures it is just a modular charger. It of course has some neat features but overall it looks like you would have to click some buttons between each batterypack that you connect. Can anybody confirm this?
Or am I wrong and you connect a pack and it automatically chargers? If that's the case then it would be almost perfect. Still would need some sort of output signal when the battery is finished so the multiplexer could switch to the next pack.
But that's not 100% necessary since you can just use simple timers to switch from pack to pack
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