ORIGINAL: snacker
Thanks for all the help gang, you guys are great.
Let me get a couple more things straight with you guys before I quit buggin you (till the next topic). I bought this charger and I have to open my car hood to use it. If I charge the reciever pack a day or two in advance or more (with my car hood open while charging) is it ok to go flying, or should I only fly when I charge the night before.
Either works.
Since your charger only does one at a time, if you put off until the night before, what happens if the weather breaks and you want to go fly right then?
Don't forget that you still have your original wall warts, those slow chargers.
So when you get home, put both RX and TX on the wall warts. Next day, using the TritonII won't take very long at all.
Is the purpose of trickle charge for when you fall a sleep at the field with the hood open and the battery charging?
The trickle charge is to pack the battery fuller than it gets from the heavier "quick" charge. It's actually a good idea to let the quick charger give some trickle.
What is the best setup if I have a plane or two and want to fly all day without running out of battery power: bring multiple cars for battery charger charging, use mutiple battery chargers off the same car battery at the same time or get a field box that accomodates a car battery?
Bring more than one car? Multiple chargers? Field box with a car battery?
Are you serious?
Cheapest solution in light of your ideas........... Trade the Triton for an AccuCycleElite.
What's the best setup with your Triton? It's an excellent charger. Planning does wonders. Charge your TX and any airplanes you might fly in the next week or so. Also you might get a couple of extra RX batteries and charge them up. Take the charger and use it if anything shows it's down on capacity when you check it with your ESV. You got an ESV, right?
The transmitter is going to last through a couple of airplanes in a day. It's also got a readout that'll make monitoring it easy. Your TX does show battery voltage, right?
Lastly, is their any point where I need to worry about having a car battery charger with me because I'm the only one at the field, and my car battery is drained because of charging all my airplane batteries off the car battery?
At least I don't have to ask about kinds of batteries or charging rates because I read the instruction booklet.
You're going to have a real problem flying enough in a day to drain your car battery. But it's been done to old car batteries. But not new ones.
Now..................
You've got an excellent tool there in that Triton.
Use it and the wall warts to insure the next time you go to the field you take full batteries. And when you get home, use it to not only recharge, but to tell you some very important information. When it says it's got a "full" charge on a battery, it beeps right. Well, the beep ain't the big news. What the Triton tells you on the readout is how much capacity that day at the field consumed. With that info, you got the world by the tail. Think back and remember how many flights you put on that TX. How many flights on each airplane. Now you got the info that'll answer a bunch of your questions, the ones you already asked, and ones you haven't asked yet.
As for buying some more chargers.............. Don't need to. But if you do, why not pay only $10 more and get one that does
two recharges at once and can be used off 110V AND 12V.