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Idea: Charger Multiplexer ???
#1
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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#2
Sounds like an arduino DIY project Tongue
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#3
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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#4
You might check out the PowerLab chargers from Revolectrix. They also have this cool thing called the Bump Controller: http://www.revolectrix.com/bc_description_tab.htm that will control 4 PowerLab units.
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#5
I came across this 'charsoon magic cube' it has different options (cells) to connect to the main 'cube' different cells support 1s (LOSI and micro JST etc.) and a different cell for 2-6s,  looks like it also has USB or micro USB to charge camera's and other peripherals as well as offering support for DJI stuff too...


Edit to add - answer to question of XT60 support -
50W is not very much. That is 3A on a 4S. you can safely run about 1A thru each balance wire. Not sure if it charges every cell independent. On 3S you have the 4A, maybe they will run full 5A on that. I assume it is designed for direct charge of individual bateries. The 01 is only $13.49. So not expensive. Also seems like 2x50W is max. So not high rated, but $60 for a 4 port charger is not that bad. But it can't compare to a good 300W/20A charger with a paraboard. But some are afraid of paraboards. See less
February 09,2017
sorry, there isn't XT60 PLUG
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#6
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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