[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Obviously these batteries aren't holding a full charge. I know that cycling > batteries (drain, charge, drain, charge, etc) is supposed to help NiMH > batteries regain their former capacity, but I haven't any ideas how to drain > the batteries in a relatively short period of time.
I'm not fully up to speed on the NiMH technology, but what you're saying did apply to the NiCd batteries. With those, maybe or maybe not with NiMH, I'm not sure, you want to run the charge/discharge cycles as closely as possible to the same current draw as they'll see in actual use. So, if you're going to use them in a digital camera, for example, you wouldn't want to run the charge/discharge cycles at 5A draw, and if you were going to use them in a remote control toy car, you wouldn't want to run them at 0.1A draw. This probably applies more to "continuous draw until dead" applications, like a remote control car, where you charge the cells full then run them to depletion immediately and at a (relatively) constant current draw. In a camera, the draw will be much more intermittent over a much longer period of time. -- Thanks, DougF (KG4LMZ) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
