On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 03:50:26PM -0800, Flying High wrote: | I have this battery pack but it doesn't have any markings | on it that I can see, my question... I'm using a Triton | Charger and I'm not sure which setting to use. If this is | a NiMH pack, would it be safe to set the charger as a NiCD | or should I set it for NiMH? | Again, I'm not sure if this is a NiCD or NiMH pack.
If you're not sure, NiMH is a safer setting, but you run the risk of undercharging your battery. NiCd runs the risk of overcharging the battery, but the Triton is pretty careful about things (periodically stopping and restarting to make sure it doesn't miss the peak) and so I doubt it would. Some people use the Triton's NiMH mode to charge NiCds, just manually increasing the voltage depression voltage somewhat manually. This gives them access to a few more functions. (No idea why GP didn't just give NiCd the same functionality.) Most NiMH cells don't like being charged at over 1C (though the sub-C cells of both chemistries seem to love abuse and can go higher) so you might want to keep the charge rate below that. Which isn't a bad idea for NiCds too. I assume you know the rated capacity? Email me off list and tell me the size of the battery and the capacity and I can probably tell you what it is. If it's AA and 1100 mAh or less, it's probably NiCd. 1200 mAh - 2500 mAh means NiMH. (Has anybody seen a 1200 mAh or more AA NiCd cell?) If it's AAA, I've seen 550-800 mAh NiMH cells, and so anything smaller than that is probably NiCd. I've got some 300 and 350 mAh NiCd AA cells, but I imagine that other capacity cells exist. Sanyo NiMH cells are usually green, but that doesn't really prove anything ... -- Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] `Keep Cool, but Don't Freeze' -Hellman's Mayonnaise RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. Email sent from web based email such as Hotmail and AOL are generally NOT in text format
