ORIGINAL: SushiSeeker
ORIGINAL: bigtim
thats part of the reason i have been installing Voltwatch devices in my planes to watch the charge levels on the batterys, if I charge one up and a few days later the voltage has dropped I know there is something wrong, and I check the battery.
I have a maintenance cycle for my batteries. About once a quarter, I cycle each battery and make sure I top it off with a trickle charge. I do this with other batteries around the house, too.
I do it about once a year, I use a PRO-PEAK ProdigyII digital charger/discharger it does a bang up job of charging and cycling batterys, I can program it to do multi cycles if I want to, some batterys seem to do better if you cycle them a couple of times, it scrambles there memory[sm=spinnyeyes.gif] even though most batterys dont have memory problems any more
funny thing I just came across a couple of less used batterys in a box I cycled them a couple of times and they seem to be doing well, after a few days there still holding a full charge saved me a few bucks, since I have a couple of planes that they will work well in.