hello we hope everybody's doing okay we wanted to show you guys the ardroit 30 amp lithium charger
if you've been watching the channel you know that we've been looking for a lithium charger
we just got done building the solar box so we need a way to charge it this might be the option
since it is 30 amps it puts out a good amount of energy and it does plug it into the wall
so right here we have the unit it's a nice aluminum housing looks like it's extruded aluminum
right here is the power cable that plugs into the wall standard computer type Style
battery clamps you get about three feet of cable with it
nice battery clamps they seem to be copper all the way through
they are soldered and crimped over so that's good we'd like to see a strap in
between here but for the price now you can't complain and these run down into an insulated
big jacket which is
11 gauge
so 11 gauge wire
the units here basically on the back it's got a cooling fan transfer switch for 110
or 220 depending where you are in the world this is for us so it did come with the US
Standard grounded plug this is a model 80 1230 which is 12 volt 30 amps there's your AC inputs
now this can do two type of batteries
lithium iron phosphate which is a lipo4 life Pro 4 this is what we have and
ternary lithium never heard of that but that's another lithium battery
again 14.6 volts DC at 30 amps here's the indicators power on is one LED charging is
two red fully charged is one green and that's all you get no power switch so
when you power it directly when you plug it in and hook it up to the battery it
does everything automatically so there's no switches nothing you have to mess with
here's the instruction manual and as usual when it's translated over into English usually
it's messed up so we have 80 20 30 or 12 30 sorry which would probably be this one here
and that's 12 volt battery pack Max voltage is 17. it's kind of high but 30 amps
and here's everything 93 efficiency it has all those over voltage short circuit but if you're
charging a lithium battery you've got a BMS so hopefully that will take over for the charging
that's everything let's see and then here we are
less than 80 percent is red flashing red LED on always so that's what we have we
discharged a battery down to about 75 percent so we should see one solid and one flashing
those are all the instructions again there's nothing you can really do but hook it up
and that's it so with these clamps you want to make sure that it's really really tight
on the battery so what we're going to do is we're actually going to take the studs out
and screw it down toward the stud grabs this area here and we'll show you also we want to shout out
Jim at our Droid he helped us get the battery really informative so if you guys need a charger
you know email them check them out on Amazon again the link is in the description so we're
gonna get this thing hooked up and see if you can actually put out 30 amps
all right we got the charger sitting here hooked up and what we did was
we just took the screw and made sure that the the lip of the clamp is on there very
tight and we tighten the screw down with holding it in so now this thing cannot move
it's in there tight same thing with this one we put it underneath the nut so it's tight
and right now we have 13.3 amp or 13.3 volts
and we're going to go ahead and plug it in and see what happens all right we're going to plug it in
we got one red LED lit right now we have two red LEDs lit so they're both solid one's not flashing
and that's what it says on the actual box it says both are solid but in the instruction manual said
something about one blinking but it's charging there you see 29.8 29 .7 somewhere around there
which we can consider 30 amps it's it's close enough 407 Watts and it should take about an hour
or so because we have 33 amp hours we pulled down this is 135 amp hour battery so it's just after
1pm so around 2 o'clock an hour this thing should be charged we'll come back and check on it again
there it is both LEDs are lit up and red one's uh a clear color and one's like a frosted color
so we'll come back and check on it about an hour or so
all right we actually wanted to add in that we're monitoring the
temperature on the terminals as well as the battery and the atmosphere
so if you look here we're about 27 degrees Celsius on the battery
and let's see
so 27 is about 81 degrees or so somewhere around there 81. so that's the battery temperature
the terminal the positive terminal post here is 82.6 and the ambient air
temperature outside the box is 73.7 so we'll monitor those closely the battery temperature
should be close to the terminal output temperature because that's right around where the battery um
temperature probe is situated all right we're coming up on the one hour mark the temperature
never got over 100 degrees on the positive terminal or the negative terminal while charging
and we'll bring you over to the voltage here
there we are
and we're at 98 as you can see there four minutes
left we're right around that hour mark we had about 33 34 amp hours we drained
coming up to 14 volts so we will see if the charger starts to adjust the amperage
and we'll check the voltage of the meter here as well and see how accurate this is
we got 13 9.3 on the meter across the battery terminal so off by zero point
or .02 volts so well within spec
is going out
soon
all right and the voltage terminated there so that's it it charged all the way up
the green light is on saying that it is charged so yeah if you guys are looking for a good lithium
charger this seems to be a decent model for the price 30 amps pushing out consistently it can
charge all types of lithium batteries the biggest thing is to make sure that your battery clamps are
tight on there make sure they're locked in tight and temperature was only around 95 96 degrees
we have a fully charged lithium battery so we'll be adding this to the portable solar
generator so stay tuned for that hope this helps thanks for watching please subscribe