I have several different charger, quick chargers, cyclers, testers, etc. I bought them after reading all the "stuff" floating around on this list the past several years about batteries, charging, maintenance, etc. I have still had several battery failures, using all this stuff to insure I dont have failures. Kind of funny, when I was more of a sport flyer than I am now, I used a simple wall wart to charge and a light bulb thing I made up to discharge my batteries. In the 15 years I used this stuff, I dont recall ever having a battery failure. There was one time before I bought a ESV that I ran my Rx batteries too long, crashing my old Olympic 99 at the slope but other than that I never had anything go wrong-until I got all this "stuff" to insure my batteries arent going to fail. If you ask me, except for the quick charger for those" last minute charges," its all just a bunch of crap I really dont need to keep my batteries functoining-complete waste of money as far as Im concerned. Walter -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, November 08, 2004 10:31 AM Subject: [RCSE] NiMH/Charger
><<All was well till I crashed my Wonderful Ava-Gea...Two of the cells failed >at the same time..They had been charged for a couple months on a Sirius >Smart charger..So I blame the cells and not the charger...>> > >Although the Sirius charger is a great field and bench tool, it really helps >to have something that can cycle your systems as well. There are many out >there that are good - I think Sirius supplies one. It's a prudent practice to >run a cycle every month or so just to check the health of the batteries. If the > capacity isn't up to snuff after a couple of cycles, a new pack might be >prudent. If you've got a VOM, you can usually find the weak one and replace it >if you like to get in and solder things. BUT, when one goes, the others may >not be too far behind. > >If you go this route, get something that can handle different battery setups >- at least Tx and Rx packs, NiCd, NiMH and LiPo (if you think you might go >that route), high rate and low rate charging. It seems like a bit of $$ up >front but it's a lot less painful than losing a plane - especially an Ava > >Just a thought, > >- Dave R > >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. > 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.
