Does anyone know if the Victor can be upgraded to a lipo or where you can get one service?

Did the fancier victor charger have an adjustable voltage cutoff? If so, you could carefully charge a lipo on it.

I don't think it does.

I heard rumors of a industrial Victor that had lipo charging ... but I have never seen one. I think someone on rc-tech mentioned that they had the prom for it but it didn't work right. The interesting thing would be use the fixed voltage motor current measurement to charge the lipo. I wouldn't recommend doing it though ... there are too many good/cheap lipo chargers to risk a incident with a 10-20 year old charger.

I beleive the red hi-iq sr had voltage cuttoff i will go downstairs and dig them out, i have 2 off them and see. i wonder if they still work

I heard rumors of a industrial Victor that had lipo charging ... but I have never seen one. I think someone on rc-tech mentioned that they had the prom for it but it didn't work right. The interesting thing would be use the fixed voltage motor current measurement to charge the lipo. I wouldn't recommend doing it though ... there are too many good/cheap lipo chargers to risk a incident with a 10-20 year old charger.

A lipo charger is only fixed voltage variable current for the last portion of the charge, so that would not work.

Any charger with an adjustable voltage cutoff i.e. Futaba CDR-5000 works great though.

I heard that some guy was charging the lipos and a 15 amp charge rate? If so haw are they doing it and with kind of charger are they using?

Well I know how you could do that easily enough, but why in the world would you want to?

For the same reason that guys are dead shorting 4 cell and heat them up? They want a edge over the other racers?

Its not going to give you an edge it'll just wear out the pack quickly.

FYI dead shorting 4 cell packs and heating the lipos (sensibly) don't hurt them. Charging at 15A will. Not to mention whether or not it is particularly safe, especially if you're talking a 3200 pack.

Is there any way to use a ce/gfx to charge a lipo with out sending it out for the up grade.

Hi Pat hope things are going well for you.

Is there any way to use a ce/gfx to charge a lipo with out sending it out for the up grade.

Hi Pat hope things are going well for you.

Things are good, hopefully same there for you.

To answer the question. Not safely.

Thanks Pat I gess I will be sending it out.

Things are good here to talk to you soon.

Pat,
A friend of mine has a CDR-5000 that he would like to use to charge lipos. How does he need to set it up, and how safe is it?