I just got a Carona about a month ago and i am just starting to fly. When I was at the hobby store the guy said that it was not necessary for me to get a fusion moror and /or fusion esc so I got what I got. When getting my batery I was woried that if I got a NiCd i would forget to cycle them properly :stupid: thus giving them a bad memory; I was also woried that a NiCd would not give me a long enough run time, so I got a 3000mAh 8-cell NiMH and it works great [concidering I asked for a 7-cell and he only charged me for 7 cells, and the pack almost doesn't fit on the cruch]. I am now beginning to loath the guy because he convinced me to only get 1 pack, and also only to get a ac/dc wall adapter as a charger. I was getting sick of waiting 6 hours for my pach to charge [and worying about overcharging it] so i went to another hobby store and got the pirana digipeak charger so I wouldn't have to wory about overcharging them or having to wait so long. I think I fryed my $75 [canadian] batery pack with the digipeak charger. I programed the charger corectly and i put the bat on to charge after a flight [after which the bat was quite cool] and went on my computer. I went to check it after it was done and it was a little bit hot [i have been told that this is extreamly bad for NiMH packs] so I threw it in my freezer for 10 minutes so it would cool. Then when the pack became room temperature again, I put it on my helli and it didn't go [my esc has a low voltage cut system].
Can you guy's [darthdark or others] please help me, i need to find out all I can about my NiMH pack because I am getting another soon and I waant to take good care of it.
Here is what I know so far: never charge above rated capacity[eg 3000 pack charge at 3A max]
do not allow NiMH to heat up [this confuses me]
to condition the pack, charge the first time at 1/10th the rated capacity [this i didn't do]
Sorry, but this is all I know, please help me!