Originally Posted by
rt3232
not being a tech on batteries. I have used nicad;s and nimh batt's for years and with proper maintance and a log for each bat/pac have never lost a bird, But electrics and lipo are a new thing for me and still trying to get it stright before I waist a bundle of $$$ so my question still is, why do the lipo batteries checkers that on the market do not use a load when used.
Cheers Bob T
mostly because of the battery chemistry, lipos (unlike NiCads and NiMh's) do not typically drop voltage when a load is applied.
A partially discharged nicad or nimh battery can show 1.2v per cell with no load, and then suddenly drop to 1.0 volts when a load is applied.
lipos and LiFe's don't do that. so adding a load to a lipo battery checker won't do anything.
