Battery charge connection Break?

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1quickquestion1

Joined Oct 13, 2017
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Really quick question for you guys. I have a 36v 4400 mah battery (lithium ion) and I have been trying to charge it using a hobby grade charger (linked below). But whenever I plug it in I get "connection break" warning ant it refuses to charge. The largest battery I have charged before this one was a 29v 2200mah battery so I'm wondering if this battery is too much for this charger. A lot of these chargers have the same internals so do you think there might be a universal voltage cap? The website says it's a 50 watt charger but by my calculations both batteries should be over 50 watts? Any tips would be much appreciated, thanks!

Charger: https://hitecrcd.com/products/chargers/acdc-chargers/x1-ac-plus-battery-charger/product
 

oz93666

Joined Sep 7, 2010
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Really quick question for you guys. I have a 36v 4400 mah battery (lithium ion) and I have been trying to charge it using a hobby grade charger (linked below). But whenever I plug it in I get "connection break" warning ant it refuses to charge. The largest battery I have charged before this one was a 29v 2200mah battery so I'm wondering if this battery is too much for this charger.
Yes it is too higher voltage ...according to the manual it can charge up to batteries of around 20V, so I'm surprised you could charge a 29V pack .
It's not the size that's the problem (mAHrs) but the Voltage ... a bigger battery will just take longer to charge .

The only way you can do this is find the central tap on your 36V battery , you don't have to cut any wires , just connect a new wire to the center of the pack , then you have 2 18V batteries , charge one at a time . But what about balancing? I assume that's taken care of by electronics in the pack itself, this may get complicated ....
 

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1quickquestion1

Joined Oct 13, 2017
22
Yes I opened the battery and it has a BMS so I'm not 100% sure where to connect the batteries. I tried figuring it out a with a voltage meter to no avail.
 
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