What's going on guys today we're going
to take a look at the Spektrum Smart
Technology charging solutions including the smart power supplies, chargers and the smart batteries.
The Spektrum Smart Technology
is a convenient simple and
very safe way to charge lipo batteries
now it's all made possible by every
smart battery featuring a microchip that
then communicates to the charger when
the two are paired together feeding the
charger all of the unique data about the
particular battery like its charge
cycles its temperature its charge rate
its cell count its capacity plus much
more so in other words when you plug the
smart battery into the smart charger the
charger recognizes the chemistry of the
pack the capacity the cell counts and
ultimately knows the charge rate to
charge the battery so it's very
difficult to mess up those settings and
to create an unsafe scenario now with
that microchip inside the battery
spectrum had to develop a brand new
connector plug to have all that
information relayed to the charger so
what they've done is they've created a
brand new IC3 and IC5 plugs these
plugs feature a little theta pin that's
in the center of the plug that's wired
up here with our lead directly to our
microchip that then feeds all that
information about the battery to the
smart charger these new plugs the IC3
and IC5 are also backwards compatible
with the older EC3 and EC5
respectively. For smart chargers at this
time spectrum has two offerings they
have an AC and a DC charger. This is the
AC S2100 it's dual channel as up to 12
amps and dual 100 watts this little guy
right here is the DC charger it's the S1200 with up to 8 amps and 200 watts.
These chargers both feature a color
screen and they use the same scroll
wheel interface to navigate through the
menus. Additionally both of the chargers
feature in IC3 output to
connect to your battery.
To power the DC S1200 charger spectrum has two
smart power supply offerings they have a
smaller single unit power supply which
we don't have here but it provides up to
16 amps and 380 watts this on the other
hand is there a larger dual output power
supply with 30 amps and up to 540 watts.
The last thing to talk about are the
Spektrum Smart batteries these are
offered in a variety of physical sizes
as well as capacities and cell counts to
suit a variety of needs the important
thing to note though is that some of the
smart batteries feature the IC3 plug
whereas some other ones feature the IC5
the larger plug. Both of the Spektrum
Smart chargers only feature an IC3
output and they do not include any other
adapters so if you pick up a battery
that has the IC5 you will need to use
an adapter. Now thankfully Spektrum has 
a whole variety of smart adapters and
leads to choose from to suit any needs
you need but for those IC5 batteries
this adapter will be needed and is not
included one last thing to know about
the smart technology you can use a smart
battery on a regular standard battery
charger and then you can use a standard
regular lipo battery on the smart
charger but the smart technology does
not shine unless you pair them together.
I hope you guys enjoyed this video on
the awesome Smart Technology. If you have
any questions for us please leave that
down below and if you'd like more
information we'll have links down below
for you as well. My name is Brett with
AMain Hobbies thanks for watching.
