charging paired batts?

[geordie_vaper]

awaiting my lovely windows dual 18650 dna200 so got myself a pair of brown lg 3000mah batts and a pair of 25rs... i know charge together, use together, keep together,

but when i have charged both sets one has took alot long then the other to charge like 10-15mins, and with the 25rs one batt started at 3.84 and the other 3.72, are thess safe to use, tagging VapingBad as i know he knows his stuff about batts and the dna200

[VapingBad]

As long as you put them in the right way round they will be about as safe as it gets in a DNA200, remember there is no reverse battery protection as the board was designed to use LiPo & LiFePo pack that can't be connected wrong. You will have issues with the battery meter if you use different capacities, everything will work fine, just the metre won't be accurate, IIWU I would set the watt hours (Wh) of the larger ones. They won't give as good runtime as LiPos of the same Wh, here is a shoot out between them and a LiPo, but you have 2 so still better than a single 900 mAh LiPo.

If you are worried about them taking a different amount of time to charge the best thing would to do would be drain them equally in a parallel mod and then charge them again and they should be close. It could just be that the vendor tested one and used a little of the charge and not anything to worry about.

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Dont forget to set your escribe to 2 cell when you get it on Thursday

[phatfil]

just out of interest? can you charge the 18650 batteries (either 2 x or 3 x ) in a dna200 mods via the control board usb??

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Nov 9, 2015 20:08:36 GMT phatfil said:

just out of interest? can you charge the 18650 batteries (either 2 x or 3 x ) in a dna200 mods via the control board usb??

Yes you can.

[phatfil]

Cheers @windows, thread hijack over

[geordie_vaper]

let the fun begin

[VapingBad]

Nov 9, 2015 20:08:36 GMT phatfil said:

just out of interest? can you charge the 18650 batteries (either 2 x or 3 x ) in a dna200 mods via the control board usb??

You need to wire each set up differently and change the number of cells in Escribe.  You could have 2 differently wired battery cradles so you don't need to change the mod wiring but you would still need to change the number of cells and Wh in Escribe when switching between them.  You have to physically bridge two of the balance connections for 2 cells, IIRC the most positive 2 but would check before doing it.

[geordie_vaper]

had a little look on escribe thing today, some bits seem easy others not so much. very interesting though