Bebop 2 - Balanced Charger Lead Adapter by Madgadget

Last crawled date: 3 years, 1 month ago

For a while now, I've been wanting to use a balanced charger with my Parrot Bebop 2 batteries rather than the standard factory charger, but the battery connector itself is quite hard to get hold of.
So, I decided to use the original Parrot Charger lead, but then make an adapter so that I can plug it into my standard balanced charger (in this case, a Turing Accucell 6).
It's a simple plug and if you make it, I would suggest using an SLA printer or very high quality FDM (I tried it on an FDM and it didn't come out well, but on the SLA, it comes out perfectly mainly due to the size).
For the pins, I found that the pins off of an old VGA plug worked perfectly and were the right size to fit into the parrot charger lead socket. So, I cannibalised the VGA plug of for the pins, then simply soldered the pins to one end of a balanced plug, then feed them into this 3D printed socket and I used some fast dry epoxy to lock the pins in place. It's advisable to trial fit the pins in the plug and then into the parrot charging lead first.
Once done, you can then monitor each cell as your balanced charger is charging your batteries :)