NiMH and Li-Ion batteries do not have the "memory" characteristics of NiCad batteries.
Godfrey On Nov 11, 2006, at 11:49 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote: > That's true. I don't know if this applies to Nimh batteries, but > nicads can be "trained' to discharge faster. When my son and I raced > electric radio control cars, I would train the nicads by discharging > them on a resistor pack with just 1/2 an ohm resistance. I had some > 1800 mAh C batteries, wired into packs of six, that initially > discharged in about eight minutes. After a few cycles of training, > they would discharge in four minutes and a few seconds, delivering an > almost constant 1.7 volts per cell for the entire time. We ran four > minute races, so this was ideal. Of course the batteries would be > smoking hot at the end of a discharge cycle. On the resistor pack I > cooled them with a computer fan. In the car, the airflow cooled them > somewhat. They would usually maintain peak performance for at least > twenty or thirty cycles. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
