Battery Charging Amps

[food2000]

Hello,



I've done a a little research but i'd like to charge my little batteries with my big charger (icharger x8) and the lowest setting i can charge at is .05 amps.



Per my bit of reading i am seeing 1C is the safest which both my scx24 batteries are 350 mah and i bought a venom 430mah at 30c.



Hobby store guy mentioned he had a batter poof up at .05 amps.

Am i okay buying a jst ph2.0 female plug, soldering adaptors (deans) and charging at .05amps?



any insight would be great.

 

[spoo76]

The factory charger that comes with the SCX24 charges at a higher than 1C rate like most RTR USB chargers do. You'll be fine charging at .5 that's literally just half of one amp. If he hurt a stock 350mah lipo, I doubt it was because it was charging at .5

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[Ninomaniac]

^what he said, most lipos nowadays can take 2C or more (I usually do 2C if a crawl/bash pops up and I'm in a hurry )

 

[food2000]

Thanks Everyone, appreciate the confirmation and speedy answers.

 

[vinceherman]

Your charger goes down to .05A? That is a 50mA rate. Your small battery should be very happy up to 350mA rate (.35A)

 

[food2000]

Your charger goes down to .05A? That is a 50mA rate. Your small battery should be very happy up to 350mA rate (.35A)

So .35amps is max you think?

 

[vinceherman]

.35A is 1C for the stock battery
1C is charging the battery at an hourly rate equal to the capacity of the battery.
1C is typically considered the 'safe' charging rate that causes minimal degradation of the battery capacity.
Can you charge at higher rates? Yes. But higher rates are harder on the battery and reduce the battery capacity quicker than the safe 1C charge rate.
Many newer batteries is OK with higher rates. But I suspect that even with these, you will retain more capacity longer if you keep the rate at 1C.

 

[food2000]

.35A is 1C for the stock battery
1C is charging the battery at an hourly rate equal to the capacity of the battery.
1C is typically considered the 'safe' charging rate that causes minimal degradation of the battery capacity.
Can you charge at higher rates? Yes. But higher rates are harder on the battery and reduce the battery capacity quicker than the safe 1C charge rate.
Many newer batteries is OK with higher rates. But I suspect that even with these, you will retain more capacity longer if you keep the rate at 1C.

Awesome, makes sense.



thanks for the answer