Willy, we don't use wrenches, we start with the 1lb hammer and work our way up in weight until something gives.If I can't get a wrench on it, it's out of my field LoL.
Reminds me of a tale from my youth. When I was a Kid my parents had given me their old Car
A Pontiac Strato Chief. I used to pile my buds in & cruze. One night I hit a bumb so hard I was Air born. When the Car Hit the road the strap broke on the gas tank & I all most lost the tank.I did a ton of work on that old Car in the Auto Shop in High School.
If not for that I would have never been able to keep it running
I used to wheel it in the shop & the whole Class would work on it
Ah the good old days
I had a 56 Olds Rocket 88 with triple deuces, would go like hell but from 120 MPH it took a 1/4 mile to come to a stop, those old front and rear drum brakes would heat up and fade within a few seconds at high speeds, you wanted to make sure it was a straight shot for miles if you were going to get into it.
You know what kind of coin our old cars would bring today?
They really were good ole days.
You know what kind of coin our old cars would bring today?
They really were good ole days.
I decorated a whole Department XMas tree one year with 256K SIMM's after swapping over to 1Mb
So I vaped all my LiPo mods that I've not using daily down to 11.1 volts and after a few days two of them drained down to 1 to 2.5 volts per cell. One ERM250) I used the little hobby charger that came with my Hotcig DX200 to bring it up a bit for USB charging and the other one (DX200) a 4 amp car battery charger with probes attached (pulsed for about 4 seconds about 10 times) and the was able to charge via USB. Recovery charging didn't seem to function.
Seems to be a problem with the mods draining the batteries but never noticed anything excessive before. Probably took them down to 11.1 volts around 10 -12 days ago.
Seems to be a problem with the mods draining the batteries but never noticed anything excessive before. Probably took them down to 11.1 volts around 10 -12 days ago.
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Yeah those Hotcig DX200 uses DNA200 boards. I have four of them and 14 batteries for them. And I have nine other DNA200 mods. And normally, I had a few sitting unused for 2 years with batteries and barely have any battery drain at all in that time. But I had three DNA200 so far that had the battery chip failed. But they generally drain one cell. I guess you don't know the other cell voltages were?
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All cells were below 2.5, all were unbalanced.
Well I haven't seen all cells drain that low. Maybe that same chip failure can do that too. Cells that low generally are successful to recharge within 24 hours. Although anything longer starts to get iffy.
On the first one eScribe showed 0 volts per cell so I probed the balance plug, I have 3 loose Lipo's that have been sitting at storage levels for about 2 years without losing anything noticable.
It took very little to bring them up to 3.5 (the drained ones).
Sounds like they recovered just fine. Just keep a close eye on them for awhile. Have you checked the DX200 again and see if it is still trying to drain batteries?
Pulled the AVS 316L fused clapton (28g) out of the Hotcig Castle. Popped in a simple 24ga 8 wrap of NiFe48, set the power to 55W, vaped it and hit the save button.
Replay is absolutely brilliant, I like it!
Replay is absolutely brilliant, I like it!
My Lipo testing strategy.
1. Puffed? Discharge (I solder the leads of a mating Lipo MAIN output connector to a 12v automotive tail lamp bulb, connect it to the Lipo in the back yard and wait for the lamp to go out) and discard the Lipo it common trash pick up receptacle. Not puffed? Go to step 2
2. Fully balance charge the Lipo, allow to rest for 2 hrs and check cell voltages. All within .04v of each other? No? Discharge and discard Lipo. Yes? Go to step 3.
3. Charge or discharge to storage voltage (3.8-3.85v per cell) and check cell voltages. Annotate the voltage of each cell, allow Lipo to rest for 7 days and then recheck individual cell voltages. Each cell within .04v of its previous measurements? No? Discharge and discard Lipo. Yes? Put back in use.
My standards are even more strict for Lipos used in my RC aircraft due to higher current demands (.15v delta between cells).
Early on after the 200's were released I also had one that discharged a lipo just sitting, that one pulled all cells down far enough it wouldn't light the screen, I don't remember what the cell voltages were but they all were about the same and very low. I sent the board back for a replacement, it was suggested I could run the recovery and try to save the lipo but I just tossed it and replaced it with a new one.
Trying not to listen too much to the reports on the Texas school shooting, I did hear them say the kid told police he didn't shoot anyone he liked. Myself, having been a kid that was picked on when I was transferred to a new school and having a granddaughter that was the target of some mean little..... "girls" at school a couple years ago I can't help but think, if they dig into it I'll bet they will find this kid was also target of school bullies. It's a real problem for kids and the schools don't want to deal with it. The solution the school came up with for my granddaughter was to separate her from the rest of the kids, they assigned a teacher to walker her from class to class and at lunch time they had her eat lunch in an empty class room with teacher watching over her. The result, the kid was even more depressed and the other kids all thought it was funny. The principle would not punish any of the kids, he refused to discuss with my daughter any actions he was taking against the other kids, said it was a violation of their rights of privacy. This kids were texting my granddaughter, "why don't you just kill yourself" My daughter reported it to the state police, I was there when the officer came, he saw the text messages, he said all they could do was contact the school and ask them to take action. I asked the officer if he could just go to the parents homes and talk to them, let these kids see the police showing up at their house, he told me he couldn't because no crime had been committed. My granddaughter had to ride it out, eventually these kids put their focus on someone else and finally left her alone, but nothing was ever done by the school or the police. Well the school did do one thing, they let a group of kids come up with fliers on stopping bulling and post them in the halls at school, the school still has no anti-bulling polices. And we wonder why little Johnny shoots up a school....
We were all picked on at one point while going to school, but the thought of taking a weapon there never ever entered my mind.
Little Johnny should have died on the scene as well IMHO.
Little Johnny should have died on the scene as well IMHO.
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