JonPointer
I received my JD robot kit about 1.5 weeks ago and it came with the blue battery charger. Today I got an email directing me to new info on the batter charger lesson. On the lesson it talks about the new balance charger and refers to mine as the "deprecated blue ez-robot charger". The word "deprecated" obviously got my attention since I just received this kit. Is there any concern about using the blue charger instead of the new one? Why was there a switch and what's wrong with the old blue charger? Obviously curious why I received the old one, but I know there always has to be a change-over period. Just wondering if there's anything I should watch out for or if I should be planning to upgrade. I also bought an extra battery, so I want to make sure I'm treating them right. Thanks! Jon
Alllllll Righty Then! Thanks for the info DJ. No need for me to suffer from charger envy after all.
Good thinking DJ! It was clearly that wording that got me worried.
Many thanks!
if you mesure the volt out come what chould that be? i got one with 8.44 volt the blue charger
4.2v per cell (+/- a small tolerance) therefore your 8.44v is correct for a 2S battery (2 cells in series).
@rich
thats strange .the faulty batt where green and red led is on while no batt, is connected,gifs 8.44 volt
the 2 others when a batt are connected the green led goes on like it suposed, to do.here i mesure 0.01 volt( mesured whithout batt connected)
Depending on the charger, it may be intelligent and have cell balancing and other cool stuff which may affect the voltage applied to the balance port.
@rich
ah.rich you know so much.
thank you
True wisdom comes from knowing you know nothing at all
There is a small circuit board in the charger, this does something... if it was as simple as charging with a constant voltage the charger would be pretty much empty other than an AC/DC converter and voltage regulator. The fact there's all kinds of microchips in there tells us that the charger is doing some cool stuff to keep our batteries working well. The specifics of what it actually does I do not know as I do not need to know...