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Old 04-30-2004 | 10:41 AM
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northriver21
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Default Quick charging NiCd batteries.

I broke down and bought the Hobbico Quick field charger MKII, and an ESV with leads to match all of my JR and Hitec gear.

I read through the instructions and it is still unclear to me exactly how to quick charge a NiCd battery.
they dont say what Mah setting to use, it will charge from .02 Mah to 2.0 Mah.

These are the batteries I want to quick charge can someone tell me what settings to use?

4.8v 600 Mah RX bat.
9.6v 600/700 Mah TX bat.
1.2v 1200 Mah glow starter bat.

The instructions say to plug in the battery select the charge rate and push the yellow button once for nicad, it says when peack charge is complete it will switch to trickle charge for the last bit of charging.

How do I know its done other than taking the battery off and checking with the ESV?
Does it sound an alarm when done?
How fast can I charge my batteries at the field?

Is there some sort of referance guide that I can print out and keep in my flight box, or is there a formula to go by?


Anyone with experiance on the MKII? Ant help would be appreciated, thanks.