At the moment I’m plugging in 8 usb chargers to each TP4056 to balance them, but when they’re balanced I’m just using my 33.6v 2A mains charger…
Bit hacky, but I’m so desperate to get back on my board in this sunshine, I can’t wait for my BMS too arrive! Lol.
I did try hooking up one 5v 10A power supply to all of the TP4056 boards, but that can’t be done without isolating each boards’ power supply (it just causes a short).
This is entirely temporary, but if you could be bothered and had the means, this could be a permanent charging solution. You’d just need to carry around 8 usb phone chargers and find 8 spare power sockets in close proximity to each other! Lmao!
hah only 3 so far, it probably looks way crazy when all of them would be plugged in… would be a big series of wall adapters lined together to charge the cell group / supply the current to each module
Maybe some sort of adapter with 4 sockets built into one would be the best for the thing you are doing hah
This is awesome and ridiculous have a small pile of these too. Was just thinking you could tie all the input +/- on those to a bus bar of sorts and give it a power supply with enough amps for all of them to simultaneously charge.
No you can’t do that unfortunately because it creates a short of the batteries that are in series.
They need their own isolated power source. You can do that with a DC-DC isolating converter though and one power source.
Hmm I don’t understand or you don’t understand not sure which one the in ports on the lipo chargers are expecting 5V there shouldn’t be any power flowing from one to the other each charger would be in parallel with the one next to it so they’d all just have whatever 5V supply you put on there for charging, no?
No think about it, each cell, after the first ‘balance wire’ (which is connected to the positive of the first TP4056), you have the negative of that TP4056 connected to the positive of the next cell (because the cells are in series), so the next TP4056’s positive connection is ultimately connected to the negative of the previous cell’s neg. Doing this ultimately creates shorts or at least current feedback that the TP4056 boards do not like. I blew 10 of them messing around with this.
Gotcha yeah maybe some diodes could work to block the current from flowing back but I guess it’s sort of defeating the simple goofy nature of how it is.
Originally was just thinking about the input side where they’d all be parallel connecting.
You would need one on every pack. I discovered this when my voltage monitor went full nuclear after connecting it to two of my packs with a parallel balance lead- I just needed to use 2 packs that were also in parallel, not on either side of the series.
I didn’t make this but since the devices are intended for lipo they should be fine. and do they need to taper? as long as they don’t overcharge I think is the important part
