[rameses33]

After making the transitions from foamy electric to nitro to large scale gas planes. I did purchase a battery charger that will charge most every kind of battery I could think of. Now that I'm into large scale and using LiFe batteries. What's the best way to charge these up? Is there a charger available that will do LIPOs NiCads ect. plus LiFe's?

[Trumpetman]

Originally Posted by rameses33

After making the transitions from foamy electric to nitro to large scale gas planes. I did purchase a battery charger that will charge most every kind of battery I could think of. Now that I'm into large scale and using LiFe batteries. What's the best way to charge these up? Is there a charger available that will do LIPOs NiCads ect. plus LiFe's?

I think that most of the new chargers have settings for LiFe batteries. On my charger I have to do a little programming change from Lipo to LiFe and its ready to go. Have you checked the manual

BTW LiFe batteries are great. I am using them for all of my planes now: Two batteries (2 cell - 6.6 volts) straight into a Powersafe receiver and straight out to some HV servos. Simple, strong and bullet proof setup for giant scale.

[greghatt]

I think that most of the new chargers have settings for LiFe batteries. On my charger I have to do a little programming change from Lipo to LiFe and its ready to go. Have you checked the manual

BTW LiFe batteries are great. I am using them for all of my planes now: Two batteries (2 cell -6.6 volts) straight into a Powersafe receiver and straight out to some HV servos. Simple, strong and bullet proof setup for giant scale.

Big +1 to that. I switched all my big planes to life rx power. And yah, if it's a newer charger, you generally just go to the lipo settings and switch the voltage to 3.3v.

[mogman]

Me too. Each new plane is now life, and as batteries in the others need replacing, they will be life as well
I use a Hitec x4 charger.

[bcsaltchucker]

I dunno. Might be fine for receivers. BUt I put 1500mah LiFe in my RCTx and they go down a bit too fast. So I switched 2650 mah 3S lipo

[cf100]

HI, I read about Life and A123 (almost similiar battery type) from this site http://hangtimes.com/a123rxsetup.html and flying buddy "mikecam" (rcc handle) coached me on using them.

I went with the FMA multi 4 charger for my life rx batteries. I also use a quad charger like the hitec x4.

We've been using the HK Zippy 2500mah life http://www.hobbyking.com/hobbyking/s...iver_Pack.html

I use two of these in a two switch set up for my warbirds, 2013 was my first season, no problems with them.

I also purposely left one of these pack in my unheated attached garage from Jan1 to April 1 to check it out, it cycled fine, I did this because I store some of my big birds in the garage.
cheers - ken
"long live the king - Hobby King"

[Max]

Your standard B6 Charger (and its family of chargers of the same type; Hobby King; Turngy, Imax, Xpower, Thunder, etc..) has a LiFe battery setting. In the "User Set" screen, change the "Lipo V Type" to "3.3" which changes the readout from "LiPo" to "LiFe"

[rameses33]

Thanks for the help guys. After playing around with my charger, I was able to find the setting for LiFe batteries.

[Lorne @ Pro-RC.ca]

The main thing with life or a123 batteries is make sure they are charged. Life batteries read 6.6 for a long time and it is hard to tell if they are 40% charged when you start or 100% charged. cycle the battery once so you feel comfortable charging it.