You are right. Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug McLaren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mike Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 1:30 PM Subject: Re: [RCSE] Re: new batteries
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 01:30:56PM -0500, Mike Bailey wrote: > > | I cannot remember the numbers exactly but with the current li-poly cells > | about 80% of the charge occurs in about the first 30 min of the 1 hour > | charge time. > > No, that's not quite right. > > I'm not aware of any LiPo cells that allow charging over a 1C rate. > So you charge at 1C for the first while, and then once the battery > gets mostly full the charge rate slows down. > > Assuming you're starting with an empty battery (as empty as it can > safely be), and set your charger at the 1C rate, after 30 minutes the > battery is 50% charged. After 45 minutes it's 75% charged. But soon > after the charge rate slows. > > Eventually the battery is 100% charged, but it took more than an hour. > More like 90 minutes. > > -- > Doug McLaren, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy. 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
