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Thanks bro. I appreciate the kind words :)

I've was having some issues with the discharger. Come to find out it was the smaller breakers that were periodically malfunctioning. I dont know if it was because they were smaller amperage ratings or just wore out from use. I replaced all of the breakers with 300A breakers! So far its working...

Well I finished making all the adapters I need, now I have about 14 or so batteries to solders connectors on and then I just have to figure out how the datalogger works. Slowly getting there...

LOL, yeah I can charge up to 9 lipos at a time if I drug out my old and/or Chinesium chargers I dont really use anymore but I've only got 4 that I really use. I only have 2 chargers that cycle LiPos though

Yeah,I've not been making much progress. I need to spend less time on the forums and more time at the work bench. I'm gonna get the last of the adapters I need soldered up over the weekend and get connectors soldered on the Hyperion datalogger this weekend and figure out how to use it. Once I get...

I bought another of their 150C packs. I'll see what the ESR meter says the true C rating is on a brand new pack.

I just bought a couple new Pro-Match Racing LiPos for testing. I got a 5200mah 50C and a 5000mah 150C. The second one was a shorty pack but I can't see where that would matter for testing purposes. Its still a 5000mah 150C lipo. I'm thinking next payday I might pick up one of there graphine packs...

nah, they have their own website. I found THIS review of the company on big squid. They basically said theyre mediocre budget batteries or at least the 30C 5200mah pack they tested was. It was supposedly a 150C pack originally. The internal temp of the discharger reached about 120F.

Ok, So after the test yesterday where I accidently let the lipo discharge momentarily dip down to around 2.4v/c we did get some more puffing as you guys saw. So I let the battery cool down completely and then charged it back to full and then 2 complete cycles on it. Here are the before and after...

Not sure if I'm gonna set the world on fire but its definitely gonna be fun :)

Thanks guys! For those of you that havent seen it...heres the video of my DIY 100A 2S LiPo Discharger :)

Once I get the discharger lined out then I have one final step which is to get the data logger squared away and figured out. I want to be able to chart the discharges on a graph.

Thanks man. Wait till you see the finished product. I've added a lot to it since the last pics. Its was a PITA to be sure but not the worst thing ever.

LOL, No black hole opened. I did just give it a test run and the max amp draw on this thing ends up being more like 100A rather than 120A. Thats still one hell of an amp draw though. It starts out higher than 100A but the voltage falls so fast that it dips down to 100A pretty quick and once the...

Ok, for those of you geeky enough to care, I figured out what was wrong with my Battery discharger! Well technically I took it to work and had an electrical engineer I know help me figure out the problem. I've almost got it finished. I'm waiting an some glue to dry right now then I can finish up...

Hmmm might look in to that. much more afordable than the butane torch although that butane torch is supposed to be 200W. Thanks for the link.

Thanks for the link. I definitely need something hotter than my 60W station if I ever do anything like that again. I saved it in my amazon favorites in case I find myself needing something more powerful

Ok, So I happen to have a 300A current, volt and temp meter that should definitely work for this but the design is big and bulky and the wiring is different so I'm gonna have to rethink the existing wiring I've already done. That being said If I can figure out how to incorporate it in to my design...

Tru dat!

OK, so I took it to work with me today and had a colleague thats an electrical engineer look at it. We discovered that that cheap crappy watt meter that I had attached inline to the discharger isnt working properly. For whatever reason it seems like whenever a load is put on it the circuit opens...