Hi guys and Gals,
Hopefully a simple question to show how little I really know. I have a Triton 2 EQ charger, thought it was pretty good because it costs bunch. Here is my question, I have read that I need to store my LiPo battery at a storage level (not really given) The charging/discharging instructions on the Triton has an auto cut-off at 9.0 V for 3cells when using the discharge feature. Ok but every thing I am reading on the forums say don't go below 3.6 or 3.7 or 3.8 which obviously are all over the auto-cutoff. One that I read tonight on the forum specifically said to monitor the discharge and stop it at 3.8 per cell or 11.4v total. Whose is right? I don't want to burn the house down and I don't want to pay for batteries that I ruin. For my different planes I run different batteries but I think there would be the rule of thumb to use for storage of any size battery. I have 5200mAh 4S1P 14.8v 3300mAh 3S1P 11.1 and 2200mAh 3S1P 11.1 Can someone please give up the ground truth about storing batteries for weeks until I get to fly again. Up until this week I have been flying every other day but now I must stop for a couple weeks and I believe that I need to discharge all of them to the correct level for storage. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Osanbob
Hopefully a simple question to show how little I really know. I have a Triton 2 EQ charger, thought it was pretty good because it costs bunch. Here is my question, I have read that I need to store my LiPo battery at a storage level (not really given) The charging/discharging instructions on the Triton has an auto cut-off at 9.0 V for 3cells when using the discharge feature. Ok but every thing I am reading on the forums say don't go below 3.6 or 3.7 or 3.8 which obviously are all over the auto-cutoff. One that I read tonight on the forum specifically said to monitor the discharge and stop it at 3.8 per cell or 11.4v total. Whose is right? I don't want to burn the house down and I don't want to pay for batteries that I ruin. For my different planes I run different batteries but I think there would be the rule of thumb to use for storage of any size battery. I have 5200mAh 4S1P 14.8v 3300mAh 3S1P 11.1 and 2200mAh 3S1P 11.1 Can someone please give up the ground truth about storing batteries for weeks until I get to fly again. Up until this week I have been flying every other day but now I must stop for a couple weeks and I believe that I need to discharge all of them to the correct level for storage. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Osanbob