Great Planes Triton charger

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riggerman

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I purchased a triton charger back in Nov i ve read the manual 10 times followed through the flow chart pages at least the same amount of times its got no specific settings for the IP 3800's im charging in the manual every time i push a button to scroll the menu some different crap comes up with different bells and error messages. Has anyone else had this same issue ? I went to a LHS were the guy said he is familar with the triton but really didnt have a clue either called Great planes they said the manual was a little hard to figure out but the charger is state of the art . Does anyone know of any articles or web forums to simplify this set up any info would be great?
 
How are you powering the Triton?
Hi Jeff im powering the Triton with a 12 volt 600 amp deep cycle marine battery.
I power mine with a 25 amp Radio Shack power supply.

No errors, no beeping.

Works for me.

How many amps/cells are you charging ?

You might try your car battery ( try as many different sources as you have), that's what I have used at the lake.
 
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You will kick yourself when you get it down pat.

I was pissed for a while, now I love it.

Basically I'll give you a small lesson:

when it powers up usually the display will show the last battery type you tried to charge. By pressing the "Battery Type" Key you will see it cycles from Nicad, Nimh, PB(gelcel), Li-ion, then "Battery MEMORY". Only 4 places to go so far...

The Battery memory is where you can program all your different battery types into. When you have battery Memory displayed. Now you can spin the knob to go through the charge/discharge settings of the specific battery that was initially displayed on the screen when you pressed the battery type key to get to "Battery MEMORY".

If you want to change a setting that you have spun the dial to, press that knob and that setting flashes and then can be changed to what you require by spinning the knob, then press the knob again to lock it in, then to the next setting like Charge Current, Dischrge current etc., you will get back to the display of Battery Memory. On this diplay you can see the memory number in [brackets], the cell type programmed into that memory number, cell type, number of cells in pack (that you programmed) and AHour rating (that you programmed). The unit comes with assorted default programs that are bogus and will need changing.

This is where you can change the settings for memory of 10 diffrent battery types.

To get to a different memory out of the 10 you have, again you must make sure you have the "Battery MEMORY" displayed by using the "Battery Type" Key. Once there, press the knob and the [bracketed] memory number flashes. Now you can go from memory 1 to 10 by spinning the knob. Here you will notice the different factory programs that are nothing you need (most likely).

O.k. so you want to program your second type of battery pack, then spin the knob so it shows [2] in brackets then press the knob again so it stops flashing.

Now you are locked in to program your next battery pack type. Again spin the knob to set you MAH rating, Chrg, dis-chrge, etc... like descibed above.

O.k. so you have all your 10 different battery packs programmed in... COOL.

What I have noticed is that when you press the "MENU" button once in the Memory screen, you are taken to the type of battery you were last set to in battery memory.

The "Menu" key...Once you power up and the Triton displays a battery type you last used or programmed, by pessing the menu key it only toggles between the display you have to the other Menu for other specific settings, like: Buzzer type(or beeper type), safety timer (set to 990minutes+), temp cut off (for probe use only, I gave up on my probe), Peak delay time (I set to 10 minutes), # of cycles( I leave it at one (1) unless you need to to multiple cyling), delay time between charge-discharge( I set to 15 minutes, this is your call), **Peak sensitvity in Millivolts/cell** ( I only used Nimh so I set it to 3 millivolts/cell, you can/should read the suggestions in instructions, this can cause some errors when set wrong or too high), Max charge capacity in Mah ( I set mine to 4600Mah because of the newer cells that go higher than rated, this will also be dependant on the type of cell, Nimh, Li-ion, Li-po etc...)Know your batteries!!, Lastly "top off chage rate" ( I set it to .3 amps 300 Milliamps, you preference). To change any of these settings, again press the knob and it flasshes then rotate the knob to you settings, then press the knob again to lock the setting in.

Once you have those basics setup, when ever you want to charge, you can either go to the memory screen and with the knob, pick your pack, then press the menu button to get to the screen for chaging.

If you don't want to use the memory, then just push the battery type button until you get to Nicad, or Li-ion or what you require. Once on the battery type, you can press the knob and change any setting that was in the memory without affecting the memory.

If you get confused, unplug it from Power supply, or supply battery and then restart, it will always go back to the screen of the last type of battery you tried to charge.

***Some key factor are peak delay time and peak sensitivity, if not set right they might give error messages or false peaks.

Tell me the exact error message and I can figure it out for you.

If you want to call me I can step you through it with mine. 905-875-4165 Ontario, Canada.

Hope there is some help in there?? Good luck.

Sorry, I didn't get into Dicharge and chrge to discharge, or discharge to charge, etc... but that will come easy enough.

Cheers,

Ray Schrauwen
 
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