Thunder Power 1010 and 210 videos

[h-shot]

is it ok on a 3s batt when the first cell reads 4.170 and the second cell reads 4.175 and the third 4.170 and the red leds have no blinking is that balanced or do the numbers need to match perfect?
Thanks
Tony

[s9joe]

Originally Posted by h-shot

is it ok on a 3s batt when the first cell reads 4.170 and the second cell reads 4.175 and the third 4.170 and the red leds have no blinking is that balanced or do the numbers need to match perfect?
Thanks
Tony

hi no thats fine

[s9joe]

Originally Posted by Finless

Congrats on figuring it out! I hope the new one works....

Bob

thanks bob for the help the new one works great

thanks agen joe

[surfanarchist]

Bob,
Will the TP 210 work with a charger other then the 1010 for balance charging? I want to get a balancer that I won't need to up-grade later (TP 210 is good to 10S) but I have an Orbit charger I really like.

Thanks so much for doing the videos. You've saved my countless hours of fiddling and frustration (not to mention money) on my Swift and Trex 600. I REALLY appreciate it.

[Finless]

I cant say for sure but yes it should..... BUT unlike the TP1010 charger the balancer doesnt talk to any other charger so you dont get the shut off safety or cell readings on the charger.

Bob

[LITHIUMSTATIC]

Hi Bob! I got my Evo 25 packs and I wired them in series and it looks great! However, I do have a question... Does it matter what battery balancer tab is plugged into bank A or Bank B on my TP 210? Is it going to blowup if they are wrong?

Thanks,

Jeremy

[Finless]

DONT use both Bank1 and Bank2 at the same time! That will fry it (so I am told as does the manual).

Now as to your question. What size packs are these and how do you have them wired in series? Trying to figure out exactly what your trying to do..,...

Bob

[LITHIUMSTATIC]

I have 2 Flightpower EVO 25 5s 5000mah. It's done like this.

http://www.thunderpower-batteries.co..._manual_R3.pdf

I thought I could Charge & balance it as a 10s pack using my TP 210 balancer & TP1010 charger....

Am I wrong in this?

EDIT* Data cable is being used too. And I meant Bank 1 & Bank 2 oooops

Does it matter what bank Group A or B is plugged into? Or do they have to be a certain way?

Hope that makes sense as to my what I'm trying to comunicate....

[Finless]

Unfortunatly it is NOT that simple. You cant just plug one 5S pack in Bank2 group A and the second pack in Bank2 group B. It wont HURT the unit if you do but you will see that it will NOT show up as a 10S pack if you do.

Look at the PDF page 4 5S/5S lower right corner.

Pin 6 of group A is direclty tied to pin 1 group B (e.g. there is NO cell between those pins). Two 5S packs WONT be wired this way. A real 10S pack the balancer plug in the pack IS wired this way.
So you need to make a kind of adapter or buy one to charge 2 5S packs as a 10S pack.

Also dont take the easy way out! If your going to run this as a 10S pack they DO NEED to be balanced together NOT seperatly. The reason is is becasue this is a discharge balancer and one pack stand alone will balance differently than another. They need to all balance together so all the cells match each others voltage.

Bob

[LITHIUMSTATIC]

I think i get it Bob.... sorry I just have a hard time describing things in written text.

[Finless]

Understand.... all you need to do is make a jumper wire from Bank2 group a pin 6 to Bank 2 GroupB pin 1. It's better to have a adapter cable but I have done it this way in a pinch.

Bob

[LITHIUMSTATIC]

I got it Bob! Thanks!

[LITHIUMSTATIC]

I made a cable and it works perfect! However, I have another TP210 question.

I've been balacing for over 8 hours now.... the red lights are flashing and everything is looking good. The 210 got really hot earlier for a few hours ad now it's hardly warm at all but it's still balancing. When in world is this going to end? Is it normal for it to take this long to balance 10s wired in series?

thanks,

Jeremy

[hopntod]

Sorry I cant help you Jeremy but I just wanted to thank Bob for this vid.Never would have figured it by the directions.todd

[Finless]

Jeremy, it can be a little tuff getting mixed packs to balanced and understanding what the lights are telling you.

The 210 is a discharge balancer and if it has to do a LOT of discharging to get all the cells matched then it may take the voltage below the point the yellow status light will come on. Remember the yellow status light does 2 things:
1) Shows the cells are within .010
2) shows the pack is charged to 4.18 per cell
The light will NOT come on unless both conditions are true.

Now you dont have to wait until all the red LEDs stop doing thier thing... Mixed packs like this might never stop. But you DO want to get a yellow status light at some point. So if the balancer did a BUNCH of balancing you may have to start the charger again to get the cells up to 4.18 again.

Also make sure the charge for now is set to 100% charge... Restart the charger and let if finish again. Let the balancer do it's thing again and by now you should get the yellow status light and the 6 beeps.

Again mixing packs you might have to do this cycle more than once.

Bob

[LITHIUMSTATIC]

I do have the solid yellow light. I will give it one more final charge and balance then I'm off to fly!

**EDIT Here is a pic of the wiring harness my buddy made for me. Thanks for your help Bob!!! :thumbsup2:

[odieser]

my 1010c sometimes stops charging because of a imbalance of over .2V but when I check the batteriy by reading the 205 balancer it only shows a imbalance of .005 volts what could be the problem
Mark

[Finless]

OK sometimes the balancer screws up communication with the charger especially if you restart the charger! If things arent making sence the best thing to do is unhook the batt from the balancer (DONT JUST USE THE BUTON) and reset everything.

If you still have a problem after that then something is either wrong with the balancer (mostly the failures I have seen) or the charger (rare).

Bob

[odieser]

Thanks for he reply Bob
So if the imbalance that I am reading of the charger is .005v I should not have to charge at the recomended .30A rate or should I just restart the whole procedure
of charging normally
Mark

[Finless]

Well if all is working well I would say yes... but make sure your balancer is not screwed up!

Under known circumstances I would say YES but you brought up a issue so please be careful!

Bob