Scorpion BUG

[KevG]

Well I just picked up a Scorpion bug off Ebay, think I had a good deal but as its ebay only time will tell

Well £5.50 was what I paid just hope the LiPo is ok!

[Graham Lawrie]

Brilliant Kev, thats a bargain:)

[KevG]

It's only going to be a bargain Graham if the LiPo is sound, but I do hope so,

[Graham Lawrie]

True:) I was the same when i got mine,but it turned out great:) Going to use mine on my 600:)

[murankar]

Good luck, hope it works out for you. Its always a gamblebon eBay.

[KevG]

Well I got my BUG and it looks on first inspection to be very clean, will put it on a charger later to see how it does, but got to make a charge cable up first

[Graham Lawrie]

Kev you dont need to? should charge through balance plug? or JST?

[KevG]

Can't charge through balance lead on my Icharger needs power leads connected as well, will post up pics later,

[Graham Lawrie]

I have charged it on my Icharger this way, just do it as a normal lipo charge:)

[KevG]

All the posts out there say that can't be done, can you do a little video when you have 5 mins so I can see what your doing please mate, would be great

[Graham Lawrie]

Will do Kev:) Its been a while, but my Icharger would not recognise it, so i scrolled through the menu as i did not have JST connections at the time:) will check when i get to the loft today:)

[KevG]

Thanks butt,

[KevG]

Well got to find out whether I got a good deal or a holed bucket, and it's a good deal by the look of it,

Battery was at 8.27v
Output at 5.12v
Cells within 0.005v of each other,

Bingo, me likey,

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And here is the lead I have made to charge with, snipped two wires from a 2s balance lead extension and crimped in a jst plug, compliments of my cropper tool, a little heat shrink to tidy it up, job done,

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[cml001]

Awesome!

[Graham Lawrie]

Hi Kev, checked after i read this:) My connection is different from yours? I take it was something the previous owner did. Its a servo connection on mine , 2 pins only ground and live. I plugged it in to my Icharger with the balance lead and i am getting an over current warning? I am assuming it is because it is fully charged.

This jogged my memory when i first charged it, it was with a Deans connector to servo plug and NO balance lead connected.

I will run it down in the next day or so and try again and see what happens:)

[Derek]

I need to get serious about getting this BUG for my 600 and maybe even my 500. Just in case....

[KevG]

Graham the red and black that go into the servo plug (just out of shot in my picture) are output wires and don't allow you to charge through them, they go through the circuit board that detects the low voltage for the bug to kick in,

Post a pick up of yours let's have a look, but you have a Trex 150 charge cable you can just plug the balance plug straight into that and charge it, or use the 150 charger,

Derek I don't know if this will find its way to the 500 think I wanted it for bench work more than anything, but you never know,

[danhampson]

I've been charging the battery for my fatshark goggles with a trex 150 balance lead it works great. They came with a charge lead but the 150 cable was in my charge station so I just used that.

[KevG]

I got leads for a few things but this was one I didn't, but all sorted now,