ORIGINAL: opjose
Hmm....
I regularly charge my plane's packs up to 4000mAh 6V on a lowly 4.8v 50mA to 100mAh stock JR chargers.
I may leave the charger on the plane for a few days or so, but my Accucycle shows that the battery does put out faily good capacity.
1700mAh packs?
At least half of my planes have 2000mAh packs or greater and all charge just fine with the "trickle" charge rate of the wall wart.
I don't have to worry about leaving the charger on too long too.
( For safety I also use an extended range meter with load at the field... ).
BTW: Most wall warts put out a higher voltage than the targetted pack...
That's cool. One of the advantages of large capacity packs is that they don't have to be at peak capacity to fly. I was particularly thinking of peak charging the battery to full capacity and maximum voltage, but I didn't clarify that in my original comments. Many pilots might lack the patience to leave a battery pack on the charger for two or three days, which would also be a consideration. "Be sure to charge it overnight," is usually good advice, but probably not when using a wall wart to charge up a 2000 Mah pack.
Using your method of charging, opjose, I'd expect your receiver batteries to last darn near forever!
