OK,
I qualify as a beginner in this discussion. I can wire up a whole apartment complex from the ground up, but I just dont understand what i should about electricity in this line of thought.

Heres my recent experience. I fly a 9Z transmitter and I just put a 2000+ mah NiMH pack in it about 4 months ago. At first the pack would go for a week and never drop below 10 volts. Now, hot off the charger it is at 10.8-11v but within 10 minutes its down to 10v. After 2-3 flights its down to 9.6V and I chicken out and recharge. I do know that I use my 9C to fly on the sim and I have let it go down to 8.4 and actually had the Tx shutdown within seconds of getting the alarm. I digress on that, I am really more concerned about my flying with the 9Z.

So with that being said here I have a 2000+mah NiMH pack and I run it for say 50 minutes and I am down to 9.6V and back on the charger it goes. At the end of the charge it has received about 450-550 mah of juice. The other day I decided to cycle the battery and see what happened. On the 1st cycle it only put in 500 mah, on the 2nd cycle it removed and then put in 1000mah. Are you guys telling me that I should let my Tx go below 9V? Am I causing memory in a NiMH battery? Whats the minimum safe voltage? Is it normal for the battery to quickly drop to say 9.8V and then slowly fall off from there? I always have been told that 9.6V was about minimum from the old timers and just sortof took them at face value not really taking the time to learn this for myself which is actually a little out of character for me.

Teach me something here.