taylor152806

can anyone point me in the way to a place that tells me how to charge discharge care for these things. for the drift car

ehroof

http://mrtmag.com/mag/radio_battery_maintenance_made/

Kemo

In a nutshell, after every use/play with a NiCd pack, always discharge it, anywhere from 1-10A is fine. When it comes to charging them, you don't want to overcharge because you can damage the packs. If the pack capacity is less than 2000 mAh, I wouldn't charge it at a higher rate than 5 A(amps). If its anywhere from 1500-1800, I suggest charging no higher than 4 amps.

If you notice you are losing run time and punch from your packs, you can cycle them. Do a discharge, then charge it up... repeat 2 or 3 times. Its one way of reviving a pack. Doing so can help keep that cell memory to a minimum.

twomanytoys

You can get an intellapeak charger that will take care of everything. It will discharge and recharge or get some good NiMh batteries so you dont have to worry about a memmory effect. I would still recommend the charger. This way you will never over charge teh batteries.

pede_187

Intellipeak chargers are really good. I have one and it rarely false peaks. Twomanytoys, NIMH does have memory effect, it's just not anywhere near as much as NICD

twomanytoys

Pede the memory effect on e NiMH is so low you wont even notice it although it is recommended to disscharge them every once in a while unlike NiCd which need to be disscharged often. Yes the intellapeaks are the way to go for any NiCd or NiMh batts.