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I did a search on charger and looks like no one else is having this problem.
I got six assembled and briefly test all is great.
So I thought I would check out the charger. (Balancer Charger S3b01, that comes with six).
I plugged in like tutorial says, Red light comes on. I plugged the cable from battery to 2cells plug and green light come on.
After a few minutes the Balancer Charger was VERY HOT. So hot I could not touch it.
Pulled the wall plug, let it COOL to touch and disconnected from six.
Is this normal? to get so hot?
J
p.s. per ARC battery 8.15 v.
stress stress stress stress
There is a Lesson in the LEARN page about how to charge the battery. There is a footnote about the battery charger getting hot in the battery charging lesson. That's quite normal in the r/c world, etc. because those little batteries take a lot of juice
I checked the temperature of the charger, the metal housing got up to 112ºF, so yes hot. blush
thats why they are made from metal cases
Just giving some feedback, between me and the kids, we have all kinds of power devices and nothing that we have gets that hot, metal or plastic casing. The reason I bring this up, to me it doesn't bother me. My kids on the other hand, picked it up and dropped it cause they thought it was going to burn them. Yes I warned them before hand, but kids are kids. I think there should be room for improvement on this device. Not barking, just wanting to help what I think is a GREAT product even better.
Options are somewhat limited.
Needs to be inexpensive and charge through the balance port.
I fly r/c electric airplanes and have 3 chargers, 1 of which I can charge 4 battery packs at a time. None of these chargers get as hot as the ez charger. the one thing in common that my chargers have is they have ventilation slots that the ez charger does not. If you look at the Traxxas 2-3 cell charger, it has similar specs to the ez charger except it has a plastic case with ventilation slots. Traxxas 2-3 cell charger
I have a Roli and would like to see main battery connector moved to the battery compartment with the battery so I can easily take out the battery and put in a fresh one while recharging the depleted one.
Just food for thought
I really think there is an issue with the charger. It gets way too hot. My little girl picked up this evening and she dropped it as she though it was going to burn her. Then she made EZ-Robot do a lil dance and she wasn't to mad at JD anymore.
I have two battery's that I swap in out of JD. One I use the charger that came with the kit and one that I use the iMax charger that I have. The iMax dosnt even get warm, and yes it has a bigger casing, but maybe the EZ-Robot charger needs to be revamped. Its also a pain to swap batteries.
69developer
the charger gets really hot,its normal,mine does too.