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Calibrating the Turnigy Accucell-6 Battery Charger

A quick video showing you how to calibrate the Turnigy Accucell-6 Battery Charger. All you need is a Li-po battery pack and a good multimeter. Sorry about the shaky video in places, it was hard to be the cameraman and press the buttons on the charger at the same time! The instructions for this charger are a little unclear in places on how to calibrate it – so this video should make it easier.
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25 comments

69penetrator69 (258 days)

My charger came accurately calibrated to 0.01V, which is pretty good. Another thing, though, when charging a 6 cell lead acid battery, it charges to 14.7V, which is a bit high I think. Any? idea if that is adjustable?

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c2thedub14 (258 days)

i own the same charger, however every time i try to charge a battery one of two things happens. either it says “connection? break” or it restarts itself and never charges. everything in correct polarity, both the main lead and balancing leads are plugged in, charger is set correctly, i just cant figure it out. worst is that its a Turnigy battery as well.

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WhatIThinke (258 days)

some spin all the time once charging, others (like mine) only spin when the unit gets hot. Keep an eye on it, but it should run after a good 20 mins of charging a lipo. I noticed in my car it comes on almost always since it must be? hotter ?

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WhatIThinke (258 days)

hope you figured this out by now, it means your charging leads have a break somewhere. Usually at the plug between the cables and the battery. Maybe a bad deans connector ? I had that issue? or a melted tamiya plug.

Good luck, that error will also come up if you disconnect the battery while charging

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WhatIThinke (258 days)

Auto is better
When charging nimh.nicd use AUT setting
When using Lipo – use the balance setting, its the best way, no need to discharge/charge lipo. Balance will balance? all the cells so its ideal. Use discharge only if you are storing your lipos and wont be using them for a while. The charger also has a storage setting for having your lipos ready to go say during a season vs. over winter ?

Cheers

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WhatIThinke (258 days)

mine will do that when the battery is fully charged, like just stay at 0.0 amp for? ages… i just press stop at that pont.

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WhatIThinke (258 days)

OMG thank you… and 100x videos to get to the point…? one 10min video with no useless talking would suffice.

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WhatIThinke (258 days)

GOD DAMN IT … why do you talk sooo much shit ????!?!?
Can you please get to the point faster ? No offense, your videos have good topics but WHY talk soo much ?? WHY ??? makes me wanna kill myself listening to? this.

FYI people, this is the same as a Hitec X1 charger, i know since i own both, great little unit so you can use the manual from hitec which is well written.

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mattchopper7 (258 days)

FUCKING? CRAIG

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jimcrunk (258 days)

Thanks. I did not know this function of? my charger.

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tonyastro (258 days)

can you charge? (not balance) lipos solely through the balance ports?? All my lipos have balance plugs.

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piron416 (258 days)

i? have purchased the same one, i get connection break error. can anyone help

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Galtline14 (258 days)

Dude you? talk way too much

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Dan McVeagh (258 days)

is that the fan that’s? making that sound? mine is not spinning on my unit.

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biddygerm (258 days)

Hi there, is? there a way to calibrate the balance ports ?
Thanks

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davepitt83 (258 days)

what size jack supplies? the power to this charger

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rabss15 (258 days)

Hey mate just got my accucell 6 and noticed when charging my nimh 2000mah glow igniter, during the charging screen I’ve noticed every know and then it will drop? from saying 2.0A to 0 only for a couple seconds. Is this normal or I got a faulty charger. Cheers.

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shagster007 (258 days)

I have this charger but what is the difference between the? AUT and MAN setting? Which is better? I charge lipos and nimhs.

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kolotoympas (258 days)

is there a way to? calibrate cell by cell?

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cesar11duran (258 days)

what size bullet? connectors?

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orandaboy (258 days)

mine keeps? saying ‘input vol err’!!!!!! HELP!!!

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pofrani (258 days)

you should have pointed out that mnorbert17′s video helped you out with this? first!

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amenic1894 (258 days)

Thanks for the calibrating video Craig…well done!!?

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MonkOfSkunk420 (258 days)

The charger can be used on a 16.4v power adaptor as long as the amps are high? enough. I use a nearly 20 year old, 60w 15v 4a IBM laptop power supply for mine – i never quite push the charger up to its limits, say about 40 watts at most so it’s all good.

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zanrath12345 (258 days)

hey man what? do you plug your charger into? Did you buy the actual power supply

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