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Old 08-03-2008 | 07:24 AM
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Default RE: cooked battery



{{{After flying when I can be home to monitor it I set up the charger for a "quick Charge". I run it at up to 600mA for this charge, }}}

To repeat myself, 600mA would be 0.6 on the charger dial??

{{{Once I am satisfied I have it nearly fully charged. I shut it all down and unplug the pack from the charger.}}}

You are useing the fact that it is warm to the touch to determine if its fully charged??
I have never felt the pack warm up to the touch. Although once I put it in the plane where I couldnt feel it, it obviously got very hot!

{{{Meanwhile I use the wall wart that came with the DX6i for the TX batteries, again monitoring them until they are warm,}}}

Do you charge with the back cover off so you can feel the batteries?

Thanks for the blow by blow description... Your procedure should work for me except for the initial charge.. What do you do for that?
I also like the charger you pointed out. what wont that charger do? 12V field battery? I'll DL the manual and check it out...

steve