automatic ignitor charger

[bob miller]

looking for a ignitor charger that will not over charge ignitors.....thanks.....bob

 

[Eric Canto]

What charger are you using for your other batteries? What type of battery are you using in your glow driver?

 

[bob miller]

eric , I was using a dynamite ignitor that included a 1.2 v 2600 mah battery charged by a dynamite ni-mh 250 ma charger.....I also have been using a dubro kwik start ignitor not sure what the mah .....both of these ignitors stopped working after one season of racing.....I think I may have over charged both ignitors .....sure would prefere a charger that would prevent over charging regardless of the battery type .....bob

 

[Eric Canto]

What type of charger are you using for your other r/c batteries?

 

[Daniel's Racing]

Just make up a cable so you can charge it from your charger you use for charging transmitter and receiver packs. It will bring it to full charge and shut down.

If you don't have a good charger for this that is the answer regardless and might be time to order one up.

Snip the glow cable off the transformer wall wart charger and add 2- 4mm banana jacks and your good to go.

Or you could splice these cables together and have what you need.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXFMVJ&P=ML

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXSGN7&P=7

Chargers are cheap if you don't have automatic one already,

Edit,

This one will do the single cell NiCd and NiMh had a 6-8 cell one listed here previously. Sorry for that mistake.

http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXEMEY&P=ML

 

[Mark Stein]

Have you tried discharging the battery a couple tenths of a volt. My 1/24 SCT losi would not run if the battery voltage was 2 tenths over what the voltage sensing circuit wanted it to be at

 

[Daniel's Racing]

There is probably no voltage sensing circuit that will shut off those type of single cell NiCad/NiMh glow drivers. Most are sub C NiCad.

It is only a battery connected to the glow socket. That is how the charger is able to connect right at the glow plug socket.

Some have a battery meter in parallel or amp meter series so you can tell if the plug is good on some of them.

I don't think he has a problem with it not working at all he is just cooking the battery and knows that probably because it gets hot on the charger and/or the batteries are being damaged and giving a short working time even after being charged.

 

[bob miller]

will the hitec x-1 mini ac balancing charger discharge , charge , and auto stop charging a single cell ignitor ?....bob

 

[bob miller]

eric , I use a accu-cycle elite charger for my other batteries....bob

 

[BrianNeumann]

The hitec X1 mini only charges 6-8 cell nicads and nimh so it would not work for glow ignitors. Hitec makes the Hitec RDX1 AC/DC Charger/Discharger. It's 59.99 and charges and discharges single cell nicads or nimh batteries as well as multiple cell lipos, life, nicads, nimh, etc... This would be another inexpensive option that would cover all of your current and future battery charging requirements.

 

[BrianNeumann]

You would program it to charge the glow ignitor to it's mah rating so it would be completely automatic whether you need to charge or discharge. All you need is the glow plug charging adapter as previously mentioned above.

 

[Daniel's Racing]

eric , I use a accu-cycle elite charger for my other batteries....bob

Bob,

​That accu-cycle charger is all you need for automatic charging.