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How do you know when your LiPo is completely dead?
The most obvious way to determine if a LiPo battery is dead is to visually inspect it. What you are looking for when you are inspecting your LiPo battery pack is any sort of ballooning of the pack itself. A ballooning pack is caused when gases are released inside of the LiPo battery.
How do I know if my Traxxas Lipo battery is bad?
The easiest way to tell if your Traxxas RC car battery is bad is to take the battery out and examine it. If the battery is swollen at all then the battery is bad and should immediately be replaced.
Can a LiPo battery be discharged by a light bulb?
Not only it can take a long time to discharge your battery, salt water can sometimes corrode metal contacts and stop the discharging completely leaving plenty of charge left in the pack. So I built this light bulb discharger as a better way to discharge my damaged or old LiPo batteries.
What is the mode switch on a LiPo battery discharger?
Here is a simple “mode switch”, which basically is just a bullet connector, either connects to the ground when it’s in the 12V mode, or to another array of bulbs in parallel in the 24V mode. The on-off switch is not a necessary item, because you can turn the discharger off by unpluging the battery, or the 12V/24V switch connector.
Can a lipo Charger work without a protection circuit?
When that kicks in, no power should be flowing from the charger to the battery, however, the device that is connected to OUT+ and OUT- should still be able to work, but it seems like B- would not reach OUT- Protection circuits are usually distinct from charging circuits.
When do I stop charging my LiPo battery?
I recommend to stop the charging as soon as the voltage reach around 3V-3.3V. After these steps, I then tested it with my LiPo charger, and it finally recognized the recovered battery. I used the Lipo balance charging feature to charge up the Lipo battery to full capacity, and it seemed to work.