ORIGINAL: Bax
If your battery packs are NiMH cells, then it will take about 4-5 charge-discharge cycles before they will hold their full capacity and allow you to discharge them fully.
I recently bought the Accu-charger Elite and have one plane with an NiMH battery. I may not know my "charging terms", so could you please explain the following instructions in the Accu-cycle Elite manual:
• Do not deep cycle NiMH batteries as permanent damage could result.
• NiMH cells do not exhibit the “memory effect” like NiCd cells, so little cycling is needed.
What is a "Deep Cycle"? Is that different from a regular cycle? I assumed these instructions meant "don't use the cycle function on NIMH batteries" but your post make me think I'm wrong.