And too technical for me also, guver!! But I'll take the easy route. Everything I read says NiCd and NiMH batteries need to be cycled initiallly to achieve their rated capacity, and that cycling them is not harmful. After only two cycles the storage capacity "seems" to have increased from 484 mAh to 642 mAh. Again, it's a 1000 mAh 7 cell NiMH battery. It was pretty warm when the charger shut off after 642 mAh.

So I'm going to set it up again on my computer desk to cycle 4 times at 0.5 Amps. I'll post back what happens.

Frank