ORIGINAL: abufletcher
What the heck does this mean?
''Break in (first forming charge) on 50mah factory wall charger 700mah-19.6 hours,1100-30.8 hours,1650-46.2 hours, 2500-70 hours. For 70mah wall charger deduct 28% of time, for 100mah wall charger deduct 50% of time. Forming charge (initial charge) on peak detection chargers is not recommended and voids warranty.''
I've long since gotten rid of those wall-chargers...which were the primary reason that most of my Tx packs are dead.
Can't I just put the battery in the Tx and charge it like I always charge. What's this 30 hours of charging above?
Abu
On all my Airtronics radios the first instructions were also to give the batteries a 24 hour charge in order to get them started out right. This is the same but adjusted for the different capacities and charge rates of the various batteries and chargers. From all your previous posts you mention batteries are your nemeses. There are so many options even those of us who have been flying electrics for decades (damn I feel old) have to stop and think.
In my opinion if you find you don't need tons of capacity and want to keep things simple then get some NiCads with similar ratings than before. I have found the high capacity NiCads don't have long life despite careful treatment and frankly the NiMHs have great capacity but are fragile can fail without warning and need to be handled in a very specific way for the first dozen charge/discharge cycles. I would go with 700mAh to 800mAh NiCads or the SR Batteries 1000mAh series.
As an aside I bought an Airtronics Quasar brand new off the shelf a couple years ago and the batteries, despite being probably 15 years old were excellent. Charged right up and had great life.
If you want to a 3 cell Lithium Ion pack is a great replacement for these packs. I am using one in my Infinities and have empty cases for three more. The cells are LapTop batteries about 2000 mAh and hold a charge for many months.
Stephen