What did I do?! (Electronics / battery gurus, this is for you.)
I recently had a few days were it looked like we were going to be able to go out and fly our foamy electric, but it alway got windy or something else came up. So, I had the 7.2v battery in the car quick-charger and everytime I went somewhere it would start out charging. It came up to full a couple times, but whenever I would turn the car off it would restart the cycle and act like it was taking more charge.
SO today we actually ALMOST flew, but immediately upon pluging it in, the thing in the picture fried and broke the circut. I thought maybe it was some diode that was a safety thing. (ie TOTALLY unneccesary) And since the battery tested at 8v (seemed a bit high) and we didn't have another, well... you guessed it. I removed it and promptly fried the reciever. *SIGH*
My question is... WHY? Is that .8v really enough to do damage? Is that even what casued it? What IS that stupid little thing, anyways?
Time to upgrade to a three channel.