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Originally Posted by Skruface
A good rule of thumb is to trickle-charge a battery slowly at no more than 1/10th of it's rated capacity. This will help to ensure long battery life, especially in NiCad cells.
eg: a 2000 milliamp battery should be charged at 200 milliamps, or thereabouts. Yeah, it;ll take 10 hours to reach capacity, but you won't have a meltdown.
"small", "stick", and "butterfly/nunchuck" packs made with 2/3A-sized cells are much more intolerant to overcharging than "large" size (Sub-C - Celled) packs, in my experience.
What you really need is a charger with adjustable charge rates. I use an Intellipeak Digital Pulse Charger, which allows me to adjust charging rates between 200 milliamps and 6500 milliamps. It hasn't failed me in almost 8 years of playing:
http://www.hobbyhobby.com/cars/produ...pulse_info.htm |
add 50 usd and i could buy myself a new gun :P