How to Charge and Parallel Charge Lipo Batteries

Everything you need to know to successfully and safely charge your LiPos. Hope you guys find this useful!

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[MattPochwat]

Sorry about the camera focus in this one. Not sure what happened there...

[Tyoung]

Hands down the most easily understood video on this topic for those of us who are easily baffled by jargon. The diagrams help a ton. Bless you

[skylerbrehm]

Your editing is so sleek. If I just started, you would be the easiest person to understand. Thank you so much for making this, even though I already know everything ;)

[gamefreak]

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[motonewyork]

As someone who is just starting out with FPV, massive thank you for this video! Just THANK YOU!

[PacoGValencia]

Man... this is so awesome for someone just getting back into the hobby like myself! Too often I feel like I'm lightyears behind and have to gather info from tons of different sources when I just want to know the basics to get started. Keep it up!

[ryswe]

this was a big help for me, i actually ordered this exact charger a few days ago so this was perfect for me! cheers

[baldersystemsllc]

Great info Matt! I have the same charger and one of the functions I use quite often is the storage function. I tend to bring my lipos up or down to 3.8V with this before parallel charging. This is also really convenient when it's time to charge up all my packs I know they are ready to go.

[cshobbycool]

Great review, this is one of my favorite channels now to know more of rc hobby items

[Matony]

Coming back to this video for like the tenth time. Thanks Matt 👍🏻

[sunsetpark_fpv]

Thank you for simplifying or rather, unifying everything in a totally understandable way that made sense 😎

[dunotn]

The best explanation of Li-Po batteries charging I've ever seen. Thumbs up

[EbonySeraphim]

Additional tips and corrections from an RC heli pilot (we demand more out of our LiPos than FPV):

1. You don't need all batteries to be the same brand, or even the same capacity. Critically, they need to be the same cell count. Importantly, their voltages need to be close together. In fact, the reason you need them to be the same cell count is because different cell counts IS a different voltage on the pack. To describe what happens -- it isn't even an overcharge amount issue. The issue is the power delivered to each battery in the circuit, and for that matter -- as they exist in the circuit. The moment you wire up a lower voltage battery with higher voltage batteries, the laws of physics (E&M) will be pumping juice directly from the higher voltage batteries to the lower voltage ones and in an unrestrained manner. Basically, it's the bigger batteries that will start to overload the smaller one.
2. When you parallel charge, you can charge over 1C just the same as you would individual batteries. A parallel charging board presents the charger with a single large battery. Take that total capacity, and you can charge at 2C (or higher if you do) of that.
3. This was missing entirely from the discussion: but always balance charge your packs initially. I have a charger that can fast/slow/normal balance charge. I normal balance charge at the start of day, fast balance on the field. If you're going to discharge your pack promptly (within hours), you really don't need to balance charge it slowly with precision.

Example: I always charge pairs of my 6s 5200mAh batteries at 20.8A. This is a 2C charge because in parallel it is logically a single 10400mAh battery, twice that is 20.8A. My 6s 6000mAh pairs are charged at 24A, etc.

[trymacs]

Nice Video! I am into FPV about 18 months now and I wish I had your videos when I started

[RickAlaniz]

Best tutorial ever on charging fpv lipos! Bro thanks!!! 🎉

[samavella]

One of the best videos that I’ve seen on Parallel Charging. Simple, but yet detailed and to the point.

Thank you!

[ireshekanayake]

Dude, you explain this so simple. I am just few days away from buying my first fpv 5 inch mark 5 and I am going thru all your videos one by one. I am a Srilankan and there are probably less than 5 FPV drones/pilots in my country. Thank you so much!!!!

[MrSabram]

Finally an explanation of balance charging that really made sense, thanks

[hisheeelijah]

Dude your approach ro teaching people is amazing. Its like the best teachers are never in the classroom but behind a camera.

[tommcmannfilms]

As someone just getting into FPV this was incredibly helpful. Thank you for making this!