Hubsan Multi charger

[vonKlutch]

Hello there community,

I recently got my Hubsan in the mail, (took like the full 30 days to ship to me, absolutely rediculous but thats a story for another time)

Over the few days I've had it to practice, i've done several battery charges.

My routine is to fly it untill it starts flashing and then basically hover and practice untill it loses the power to stay in the air, then i disconnect and add it to the pile. when I have 6 dead batteries I plug it in and start charging.

My concern is, I have my charger plugged into a power block that you would use to charge a cellphone or in this case I think this one is the one that i got to run my LattePanda single board computer.

but The lights keep flickering, i'm having a hard time getting solid lights to show charging, and everything is getting rather hot. I mean its not like its going to burn down my house hot, but its all very hot. I'm wondering if i'm using the wrong power source or something?

now I dont know if i've been charging all the way or bumping the cable and showing them as all charged now the lights are off. so I've decided to charge them all individually to get them all full to try and start again.

Should I be worried? I really dont want to be charging these damn things individually thats a waste of time since i'm running 7 batteries. would much rather use the multi charger, i just dont want to roast anything.


This is the charger I'm running, i'm sure more than a few of you have this one.
https://www.amazon.com/BTG-Upgrade-...id=1466260151&sr=8-12&keywords=hubsan+x4+107c

 

[Jackson]

My routine is to fly it untill it starts flashing and then basically hover and practice untill it loses the power to stay in the air,

I would not do that.

The lights keep flickering, i'm having a hard time getting solid lights to show charging, and everything is getting rather hot

I've got one of those green things, the ports are quite chintzy and you said trying to get the lights to stay on steady can be a chore. That said it charges quite nicely (~4.18V) and it seems like all channels are independent. Mine doesn't get hot, try plugging into a computer's USB port as a test. What is the output of the power supply you are using.

 

[vonKlutch]

Okay in regards to discharging these little thigns what WOULD you do? lol
I just figured if i did that I KNOW that they're all depleted to the same level, which would make it safer to charge em at the same time.

I've tried computer usb but I thought a power plug for usb to wall plug in would give more power.
I'm using a power block that is apparently 5v 2.1A would using my computer to charge really be better?

 

[Jackson]

I just figured if i did that I KNOW that they're all depleted to the same level, which would make it safer to charge em at the same time.

Not really, and as I said that green little charger (like in your pic) seems to charge them all independently as noted by the separate lights that wink out at different times.

I'm using a power block that is apparently 5v 2.1A would using my computer to charge really be better?

Just trying to address your heat issue (which I don't have). How hard can it be to try?

Good luck.