ORIGINAL: grizzdaddy
WOW!! Thank you all for this awesome information.....I was thinking of asctually building/soldering my own packs but thought it might be a little risky. Just to make sure that I am right on this when cking the battery you want to see what the volts are under a load right. I cked my servo's and the averge draw is about .025 to .05 amps. When I normally ck the battery I use the Hangar 9 battery checker at 2amp draw, is this where I might be messing up? Because by what everyone is saying I am only good for one maybe two flights and that sucks
It is and as gene pointed out even those of us that solder all the time can destroy a pack just by over heating the battery a little. I have Batteries Plus make me up fresh packs. I had also scored a number of Eneloop batteries and I just went to Radio Shack and bought a couple of battery holders for them, poped in the batteries, soldered on the plugs as a splice into the two wires that are on the holders and Shazam, new Eneloop packs. The packs are a bit wider then the normal packs we buy but they work great. Tape or shrink wrap can be used to hold the batteries in the holder.
Eneloops are great, charge them today and several months later they are still charged up. Very little self discharge. That's there great claim to fame. They can be found at any camera shop/store.