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Dave Bowles -> zapped Batteries (1/21/2002 11:29:36 AM)
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After going threw the battery wars for almost 10 years of R/C car racing I can tell you the zapped Battery deal is just another way to extract a few more dollars per battery. The batteries are given a zap as discribed , it does produce a cell with Higher numbers AT THAT TIME. it has no residual effect after that charge and no long term benifits . Its no differant than a high rate peak charge or the so called Pushed Cell. The best batteries are the ones matched at normal discharge and charge rates . Also you can't compair numbers from two diffeant brands, not all matchers count the same, what may be a 450 for one company could be a 460 for another . When looking at matched cells go to a matcher that can tell you if all the cells were matched on the same day and from the same batch. The next thing is that matched packs do not stay matched , no matter how close they match some cells will always do better than others. I took apart all of my battery packs twice a year and had them rematched, I never had a set of batteries come out equal on the rematch.
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