Advice needed on TURNIGY Accucel-6 batter charger-programming question?

GOCAT9 on 23/10/2017 - 10:37

Hi all knowledgable!

I have some Samsung ICR18650-26F LiIo batteries that I rescued from a notebook battery pack. I bought a dedicated charging module from eBay for charging these which appears to work well ( e.g. https://m.ebay.com.au/itm/5X-1A-5V-Micro-USB-TP4056-Lithium-… ).

I am trying to use the Turnigy unit to measure the capacity in mAh that the fully charged batteries have. According to the battery's data sheet these nominal 3.6V batteries have a fully discharged voltage limit of 2.75V.

Now I have changed the battery type of the Turnigy to LiIo, and have gone to the 'DISCHARGE' section. I seem to be able to change the discharge current (1A max), but I CANNOT CHANGE THE VOLTAGE CUTOFF: it is set at 3.0V. I want to change it to 2.75V as per the data sheet.

There must be many people smarter than me out there hopefully!!

Electrical & Electronics

Comments

  • thetrain on 23/10/2017 - 11:43

    If it like the chargers we have pressing stop (left button) a few times should get you to a settings page. There should be able to change the low voltage setting. Whether it will let you set it below 3 V is another matter.

  • GOCAT9 on 23/10/2017 - 12:26

    I think I found that settings page but could not set the discharge cutoff voltage from 3V (for LiIo type). However, I figure that since I just need to discharge the battery to monitor mAh, I can use the NiMH battery type setting where I CAN change the cutoff discharge voltage down to 2.7V!

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