bastuman@yahoo.com (eddie

Hi,

Just got delivery of my first lipo's - 2x 1200 HD kokams which I will
be using on a pico stick slow flyer. I've bought a triton to charge
them on. When delivered they are supposed to hold 50% capacity so I
put them on a 0.6A charge, 7.4v with time limit 80 minutes, figuerd
this should do it. Problem was that the charge current started at
0.1A, then after a few minutes went up to 0.2A then finally 0.3A where
it sat for the duration of the charge. What gives? After 80 minutes
the batteries had only taken 400mA.

I set the charger to charge at 0.6A and it only gave out 0.3A ! That's
not very nice is it? So what's going on? I read somewhere that lipo's
"draw" their own current from the charge, winding down the current as
full charge is approached but should this happen so soon ? is the
problem that it's the pack's first charge?

All help is graciously appreciated.

bastuman@yahoo.com (eddie

Thanks. I actually knew all that and have done all the pre-requisite
reading. The problem is that the Triton is not putting out the amps I
want, even from a fully depleted pack. From what I've read the
designers of the triton have been a little too careful and have
hardcoded the current limit to something like 0.3C which is crazy. I
think the user should be able to decide how much current should be put
into the pack up until the 4.2V limit is reached.