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battery packs should be totally discharged after a certain number of times it has been used. ive read different opinons on this and was wondering if it is the best way to maintain the batterys. i read somewhere that they recommend totally drainin the pack{and i mean totally} then trickle charging it.i wasnt sure if i should take the pack all the way down,or leave just a little charge in them..any suggestions...also the slow charger i have charges at .300 mah"s...is this enough of a trickle charge for my 900mah packs if i were to take them down to 0 and then recharge them,.,,thanks...

Jim Finn

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You should drain a battery to zero just before you throw it away! ............................. Allowing a battery pack to drain, even very low ,is bad for it. You can kill a battery pack that way. I let my prop. drain my battery pack. When the plane will no longer fly (motor still runs) it is plenty low! Re charge then at one "C"

Matt Kirsch

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Letting your NiMH packs get drained below .8 Volts per cell is BAD for them. There is very little energy left in a NiMH cell when it gets down to 1.0 Volts at rest.

Perhaps you misinterpreted what you read. I do know that many experts recommend occasionally discharging NiMH packs, mostly to verify that they're in good health by measuring capacity. Discharging does not mean to ZERO Volts.