Hey, I have bought two of these. I have several 3.7 VDC Lipos and LiiOns but whenever i have a good USB-C charger the battery does not charge. Sitting around 3.55VDC with or without USB-C connected measured across the battery terminals. Seems like a faulty product ?
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If the charger is not increasing this voltage, the charging circuit might not be working correctly.
Hi Matthew,
Welcome to the forum!
Sorry to hear that you’ve had some issues with the Lipo Rider Plus so that we can get this looked at for you are you able to send through a photo of the back and fronts of the boards to support@coreelectronics.com.au and one of the our technicians will get this looked into for you.
Hi Dan,
Mate I got it working but it’s odd.
If I use a USB-C portable battery device (used to recharge phones) it works. Lights & charging fine.
If I use 2 types of high quality USB-C chargers (used for laptops) nothing. No lights, no charging.
Cheers
Matt
Hi Matthew
Maybe not so odd. I too have a “charging” device with 2 type A ports and 2 type C ports. I believe the type C (particularly one of them) is capable of charging laptops and other high requirement devices. Now I have successfully charged type C devices but not had any requirement to do any extensive testing.
It could be possible that you need a recognisable device plugged into a type C port before you get any output (I don’t know for sure) whereas the type A outputs should produce 5V irrespective. My suggestion therefore would be to get a type A to type C cable and try that. As I suggest the type A ports should output 5V irrecpective of what is connected. That might just work.
Cheers Bob
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Just re read your post carefully. What I am getting at is your perfectly good USB C chargers might not output anything unless they can communicate with whatever they were designed to charge and your power bank which works OK is universal providing the minimum current is flowing. I think that will reinforce my statement that a USB A port which will output 5V at all times will work OK.
Thanks Bob.
I’m not sure why mate but with the USB-C portable charger the device works as documented.
Cheers
Matt
Just explained why.
The “good” USB C chargers were probably not plugged into the device they expected to see. Laptop etc.So no output. The portable device probably outputs 5V as long as there is sufficient current as it is meant to be a portable source to charge phones etc.
Cheers Bob
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Mate I think you nailed it.
Thank you.
If this is true probably need a documentation update that’s all.
Great product.
Cheers
Matt
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