Charging in the cold.

[Shauny]

Just been charging up for tomorrow and couldn't work out why my packs wouldn't go past 90% charge. Was charging 4 6s packs on high power so I tried a single pack on accurate charge and again wouldn't go past 90%.

I tried a fresh cycle with the packs on 90% on parallel and single packs and it wouldn't put any more juice into them. Thought my packs were faulty.

After much head scratching and tinkering I connected the PL8 to the laptop to see it had detected cold weather and went to reduced voltage mode.

Is there a way that this can be over rided or have I got to move to a warmer part of the house to charge?

Thanks

[Nick B]

Turn it off

Simples

[Shauny]

Turn what off Nick? Do you mean cold weather detection? If so how?

[Nick B]

Yes,in each preset you can go to 'properties' then 'cold weather T' and select NONE.

[waveydavey]

In the settings you can reduce it to 5 degrees beign the lowest I think, no you can turn it off

[Shauny]

Thanks chaps. Now I'm off to put the remaining 10% into all my packs

[heathy]

Can't you turn the cold weather off too?

[Shauny]

Can't you turn the cold weather off too?

I'm just grateful I could change the settings in the charger Heathy, I was about to crank the heating right up and move my charging setup into the lounge, she would have gone mental lol

[heathy]

Lol, I do mine in the loft and it's cold up there until I fire up the heater.

[Shauny]

I'm going to convert half my garage into a heli man cave soon. Problem solved.

[JoeBailey]

An easy trick to stop it is to discharge a pack for 5 mins. Stop it and turn the charger off and back on and it will no longer be in cold weather mode as the charger will be warm.