djlyon

The instructions say never to discharge flight reciever packs or transmitter packs below 1.1v per cell. The chg to dischg and dischg to chg functions always dischg to .9v per cell and are not adjustable per the instructions. Does this mean that I can't use the triton to cycle reciever and transmitter packs except in the fully separate chg and dischg functions?

Denis

JNorton

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No you can use it. The 1.1 volt discharge level is trying to mimic actual useage so you have a little time before the transmitter or receiver is dead. The .9 volt level is completely dead to give you a better idea of cell characteristics similar to what the cell manufacture uses. Some manufacture specify a slightly higher level of 1 volt for discharge.
John

Rodney

A little more background on why the 0.9 to 1.1 volt minimum. This is to prevent anyone who is not very familiar with batteries from reverse charging one of the cells comprising the battery you are discharging. If you limit that minimum voltage to 0.9 volts per cell it is very unlikely you will ever damage a battery by reverse charging one of the cells. On NiCads, it does not hurt a cell to be discharged to zero volts but it will likely damage them if they get a reverse charge. When you discharge a pack below the recommended voltage and one cell goes to zero, the cells that are still able to provide discharge current are now reverse charging that dead cell. For very large cell count batteries, even the 1.1 volt/cell is not foolproof as, if you do the math, if you have enough cells one cell could be completey dead before the sum of the remaining ones fell below the 1.1 volt/cell limit. However, when discharging less than 11 cells, this is very unlikely to happen.

djlyon

Thanks guys