Charging Station

[Guest]

My shop can get pretty full, as I normally have several projects going at the same time. I felt it was time to have a designated charging station. Though most of my 5th scale platforms are gassers, they all use lipo receiver packs. There are a lot of other RCs using lipos also. My sons shredders, an xbe, 3 boats, Phantom quad, a few 10th scales all on lipos. It seems something always needs charging. I decided to make it some what mobile. I built it on a cart with a 15' cord so I can roll it in a safe open location. I will also be able to roll it up into the RC trailer for when we go out to play. I have been stressing safety to my sons regarding the lipos. FYI, that fire extinguisher won't put out a lipo fire. It will help put out anything else if it were to spread.


My charging station has 3 chargers. 2 Thunder T6 multi chargers and 1 iCharger 4010 DUO.

 

[Guest]

I started with a $50 HF cart. I added a 240v sub panel. It plugs into a 240v 50amp plug in my shop. I already had it for the welder and plasma cutter. Each breaker controls one power supply. The two Thunder T6s are powered by a 540 watt HK power supply. The 4010 DUO is powered by 3 dell 700 watt power supply's wired in series. It gives the 4010 DUO 2100watts @ about 38v. That's over 55 amps! I can now charge everything at the same time and do it quickly.

 

[Guest]

Here you can see it powered up. A good 38v into the charger.

 

[Guest]

I also added a drawer to store the safe bags, para boards and charge leads.

 

[Guest]

Here is the huge cord.

 

[rcspeedmart]

Its look very nice.

 

[Guest]

Couple more pics. I also have the option to throw some deep cycle batteries on the bottom if I don't want to use the generator when we are out hav'n fun. Plenty of room for 3 or 4 deep cycles.

 

[Michaels12]

Industrial scale bad a$$, that what that is!

Brian the " bring it on" battery master.

I'd be grateful for a " how to " on converting to lipo on this pair of MTs, but I'm not sure I'm ready to commit to the expense.

I'd still like to see all the considerations.

I'm sure there is a thread I have not read.

 

[Guest]

I'd be grateful for a " how to " on converting to lipo on this pair of MTs, but I'm not sure I'm ready to commit to the expense.

You only need to make sure your servos can handle 7.4 volts. Most receivers do fine, including the stocker, with 7.4 volts.

 

[Ildy666]

Way cool.real nice work brian....

 

[tha nemesis]

im drooling .. give me a few min ..lol

 

[rookie101]

Whole lot of awesome right there!

 

[cordy]

Oh Brian so innovative.A job well done. At my age I got all I can handle with one charger. Good show,bravo!

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys!

 

[Haavi]

RC Dad,

I ordered the remote engine kill off of your website. Will that handle 7.4 V too? I know the instructions stated that 6 V was the cutoff for voltage but I didn't know if anyone tried it. I would like to convert to Lipo soon too. Both of my servo's on my XB can handle 7.4 V and you stated that the stock RX is good to go with that.

 

[Guest]

Yes. It works fine with a 2s lipo.

 

[Haavi]

Great. Thanks.

 

[chrispc66]

Nice piece of electrical engineering, well thought out and built. It's a credit to you. Should put them on the market.

 

[tha nemesis]

i bet the whole package cost close to 3k with all them lipos and everything else

 

[rampage idiot]

Now that's a charge station! Nice work!