Electrical – Wireless charging Lipo batteries

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I found this discussion while looking for a way to wirelessly charge my 3S drone battery. I would like to find a way to drop my drone on my desk (like I do my phone) and let it charge.

If I am understanding the discussion, in order to safely use a wireless qi receiver and transmitter I would need a lipo charger configured as:
I apologize in advance for my rough illustration, I am far outside of my sandbox here.

I am wondering if my 3S 11.1V battery would charge in the above scenario since each cell in the series is 3.7V?

Adafruit uses what seems to be 3 x 2200mAh balanced batteries at 3.7V in their example with the lipo charger. The 3S drone battery I use is a 3 cell lipo in series at 3.7V each totaling 11.1V. Could I charge my 3S in the scenario above? Or since the total 3S is 11.1V does that disqualify this battery as the maximum this lipo charger will charge is 3.7V total?

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Or since the total 3S is 11.1V does that disqualify this battery as the maximum this lipo charger will charge is 3.7V total?

Your battery has three 3.7 V cells in series. Your charger can do one 3.7 V cell. So one charger won't do it. But 3 chargers would (with appropriate cable between them and the battery). So you 'just' need 3 wireless charging transmitters, 3 wireless charging receivers, and 3 single cell lipo chargers.

But you still need to plug the drone battery into the charger, so what's the point?