> As far as I can make out the smartest modern chargers will charge briefly
> for a short time every couple of hours to keep the batteries topped off
> in trickle mode. Older, dumber, chargers leave a continuous low charge
> current (too low to over heat).
The Maha I have (MH-C204W) supposedly does a "pulsed" trickle charge on a
fully charged set of cells. It's a "third" type of charging - first rapid,
then trickle ("top-off"), then pulsed ("maintenance"). (Actually, there's
supposed to be even one more phase - a "ramp-up" phase just before the
rapid phase, for reconditioning older batteries.)
Fred
