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It worked great up until i hooked up a 10s battery pack as a 1s and fried it. True story.

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(0) Question: I cant figure out how to use the balancing feature. can anyone help?

(1) Question: Will this check the voltage of the 1s 3. 7v 180mah 45c li-po batteries that my blade nano uses, without needing any adapter wires or plugs?

(2) Question: How does one connect a lipo battery to this? has no connection instructions and pins are numbered only.

(3) Question: Does it include deans connection plugs

(4) Question: What type of plug do you need to plug into the nimh socket on this device? the plug on mytenergy 8. 4v 1600 mah battery is too big.

(5) Question: Will this discharge nimh packs? (cycle them)

(6) Question: Does this have an alarm/buzzer?

(7) Question: How do you use this to check internal resistance of a lipo battery?

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Best tenergy intelligent capacity discharger resistance (01444) in review

I bought the tenergy for measuring cell resistance. I mostly use it for the small batteries used for various micro flyers. I found very little information on the internet so i did measurements on the last batch i bought. I bought eflite, lectron pro, & nanoforce 1s lipos between 80 and 500 mah. New, they all measure between 29 and 39 mohms per cell. . I also checked some old 1s micro batteries which are no longer adequate for flying and they were between 150 and 350 mohms per cell. If you want to measure 1s cells using the tenergy 5-in-1 you will need to make a small adapter and measure them in pairs. The on-line data sheet says it will measure 1s; however, the instructions that come with it says 2-7 cells. I tested it and it does need 2 cells minimum. . New full size lipos are generally between 2 and 4 mohms per cell.

Y. Marguerite, Centre

S. Moore, Poitou-Charentes says

Great battery meter for the field and at home.

F. Olga, Hillingdon

Great product. Easy to use. Works great centering servos.

K. Cunningham, Bremen says

Excellent cell meter!

D. Linda, Idaho

Use it everytime i charge a lipo, the manual sucks and i cant figure out how to get the balance portion to function correctly (after i tried adjusting it). If you leave it alone and let it work, it works fine. Good product for the price

C. Lorenz, Wisconsin says

Super handy. This is a must buy for lipo users. I can really quickly test to see if i am discharging my lipo's to similar levels so i can parallel charge without having to discharge certain batteries first to get them within similar voltages. After a flight i just plug in the balance lead to see if i need to take it up for another quick lap. Percentages are estimates, but close enough for my purposes. I keep this is the bag of batteries i go into the field with.

M. Julia, Bolton

I originally purchased this meter to provide a quick and easy way to fully discharge batteries at the end of their life before disposing of them. Turns out i now use it regularly for balancing cells after charging. Some battery chargers are much better than others when it comes to completing their charging cycle with each battery cell charged to the exact same level. The syma x8c charger isn't very good at this, as it does great up to a level and then shuts down the charging of one cell before the other. If i catch it in time, it's fine, but if i let it go until the little charge light goes out, one cell is charged more than the other. So before use, i attach this meter, turn on the balancing function, and 20 minutes later the cells are within 0. 01 volts of each other. . The only reason for the 4-star rating and not 5 is that it won't work on single cell batteries (like the syma x5 battery and others). The item description may have said this, but i missed it. So, i use one of my $4 tiny volt meters (with voltage level alarm) for checking charge levels on these batteries, and for discharging old single-cell batteries i made up a little light bulb load. Not sure why this meter doesn't have the ability to work with a single cell, but it doesn't.

B. Anonymous, Northumberland says

This unit works very well for my lipo batteries. Checks all the cells with just one button.

C. Mable, California

This really comes in handy . I'm new to batteries and this 5 in 1 really help me out . If you are experienced or new to batteries this great product works great

H. Palmer, Bath and North East Somerset says

Must have to test, work well and easy to use.

Z. Hannah, Knowsley

Good and inexpensive balancer/cell meter with a nice screen. This is sold for more under different brand names from other places. (the same unit) not super intuitive but the instructions are pretty simple. It balances and reports on lipos. In the lower right hand corner it shows the percentage of charge you have which is nice. It can take a long time but i think that is just the nature of balancing. I tested it on a 2s lipo and 3s. Balancing is pretty easy, just make sure you have the right type of battery selected (for example, make sure it detects lipo 3s) then hold down cell for a second, it will say "bal", then press cell again and it will begin balancing. Once it is really close, it will make a short beep. I find it best to start balancing as soon as you are done using it and then during charging. (balancing after it is charged isn't as good from what i have read). . I cannot figure out how to use the discharge feature to get it to 3. 8v per cell for storage. I would like to use this feature though. . The nimh functionality is just to show voltage. (like a voltmeter would) you would need some kind of special adapters for this. (a cable that goes from whatever your battery connection is down to the little white plug that this takes) i don't see the point. I have a $10 volt meter for that. I can't think of a good reason to want to monitor a nimh batter anyway, other than voltage. It doesn't come with the cable that you would need to check nimh batteries but i doubt it is worth pursuing it. For lipo batteries however, this is a very useful device.

L. Fabian, Bracknell Forest says

Outstanding addition to copter tool box. Works great and keeps me on top of the ir cell readings. I keep a record on each battery so that i can watch the aging of batteries and know when it is time to retire them from copter flight. The batteries are still useful for ground vehicles and such. . Cheers. . Batfire

X. Susan, New Hampshire

Works great checked it against my charger and multimeter and it was perfect.

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