ORIGINAL: alan0899
G'day Mate,
Sorry, but you are still wrong, the web sites you quoted, were taking about replacing CELLS of different capacities, in a pack. I am talking about using 2 separate packs of the same voltage, same chemistry, & possibly different capacity, with 2 separate switches, & 2 separate charging leads in the same plane.
There are no problems when doing this.
No sorry, you didn't get it then...
A cell is a cell...weather or not it is in the same pack or a differnt pack... it matters not. They are all electrically equivalent thanks to the common connections...
e.g. once you plug in TWO batteries into one RX their poles are common to each other, and it's the SAME as if you have CELLS of different capacities in parallel!!!
No difference to the above what-so-ever...
The references I gave you all apply... you can turn up hundreds of others with a simple google search as well... yet only his assertion to the contrary, which he acknowleges - IS - problematic, but " not overly so " when it applies to NiCDs...
... and the battery clinic did not deal with the issues of overdischarging the battery with the smaller capacity that this will cause too if you are not extra careful, since now you have to be more on top of things...
Move to other chemistries and the warnings against this become much more dire.