ISDT T8 DC Smart Charger 1000W 8S with BattGO Technology

[@elliotbaltazar]

Great review and contribution to the community!!!! Thanks!!!!

[@czajuniapawulonik3148]

Thank you. I am glad you enjoyed it.

[@Top-Jimmy]

Excellent review Thank you!!

[@czajuniapawulonik3148]

Pleasure. I'm glad you like it.

[@mazooosterrsler5339]

I want to buy 12v 360 watt 30a powersupply for this .Do you think its enough to charge 2x4s batteries in parallel or can you recommended me other? .

[@aaronfuksa2047]

question: I need two of these type of chargers to power off of a 1500w, 50A power supply, but do I need to stick with lower wattage chargers or can you adjust them to put out 300-350w per charge port???? must know this.

[@czajuniapawulonik3148]

Your answer is at 8min 20sec. And YES, you can limit power input on those chargers. Hope that helps.

[@gregca]

19:15 Here you are charging a 6S battery using a 12 V power supply. I wonder if the cooling fan would run less if you used a 24 V power supply instead?

[@czajuniapawulonik3148]

Well spotted. Thanks for pointing this out. I think you may be on to something here. To be honest I am not sure actually how this can affect the fan speed. That probably depends how much heat converting 12V to higher voltage generates at given power output. I would imagine if that was something that could negatively affect the performance ISDT would make sure that input voltage needs to be >= than output voltage. I have another 12V server PSU lying around somewhere so if I find it and have time to build a 24V PSU I will give it a go to see if there is any difference. In the meantime maybe others can chip in. EDIT: Just to get an idea I have run my smaller PSU that can supply 27V (less power though) and compared it to the same power output on 12V. I had input power limited to 240W in both cases. I was using the same 6S battery and the indicated power output on the T8 was 225W. The charger starting temperature was roughly the same in both cases. On 27V after about 5min 30sec the charger reached 60 degrees. The fan started running quite loud (at the same speed as in the video) but it managed to bring the temperature down to 50C. At about 9 minutes and 30 seconds the charger reached 61C again. After that I ran another test this time with the 12V PSU (also limited to 240W). This time the charger reached 60C after only 3minutes and 30 seconds. The fan kicked in brought the temperature down to 53C (seemed like it was spinning a bit slower than when I used 27V input). At around 6 minutes the temperature reached 61C again. At around 9 minutes we were back to 61C once again. So that means that feeding higher voltage will definitely improve the temperature control on the charger. There is a noticeable difference on the lower power output at around 225W. Which means there should definitely be some improvement when the power output climbs higher. I am not sure how big the improvement will be though since the temperatures will also get higher due to outputting more power.

[@czajuniapawulonik3148]

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