Just to keep things safe, I charge my NiMh packs at 1C and no more. Obviously, that will take an hour for a full charge, which, as far as I am concerned, is a good thing. My packs last pretty long. In fact, in one of my threads about restoring a plane that has been sitting around a while, there was some focus on the battery packs.

I looked at my packs on the Venus II last night. Both were fine. A little low, but they held a charge. I put them on the charger at 1C and they took it just fine. I want to run them through the cycler just to see what their capacity is, but will do that tonite because it takes longer to do that. I use my Accucycle for that, but charge it at 125 mah per hour with that charger, which will take most of the night.

The purpose was not to "cycle" the packs, but to check the charge level aftar a so-called "full charge" at 1C.

I also bought a pair of LiFe packs. The charger, a Triton EQ is due to arrive today.. even UPS will deliver in this crappy weather. Aaaanyway, I'll run these packs through the charger then see how I may use them as a replacement for my NiMh packs. They are 1800 mah by the way, and 6.6 volts nominal (3.3 per cell).

CGr.