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Old 04-04-2010 | 05:43 AM
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Default Alpha-4 Technical Question

I can't seem to find any reference to some tech. info I need regarding the obsolete Alpha-4 and was hoping someone might know.

Specifically, I'd like to know what the voltages were set for the following features pertaining to its' charging Nicads:

1. The Delta-V voltage trip point (voltage drop in mv used to determine full charge).
2. The discharge-to voltage trip point (per cell).

Anyone?

The reason I ask is because a charger I just bought allows setting these parameters while the Alpha-4 settings were factory-set and not changeable by the user.
I still use my Alpha-4 (a lot), and it seems to be a lot more accurate than the new charger I bought that does allow setting those parameters. The Alpha-4 ends up showing much more accurate capacity measurements after discharge (averaged over three identical and new packs), and I thought I'd like to see how things turn out if I could set the new charger's trip points to be identical to the Alpha-4's trip points (that I do not know at this time).

I was thinking that this new charger just might be the "new and improved" version of what the Alpha-4 "would have been" if Peter (Litco) were to have upgraded it to address the new technologies of batteries, but the Alpha-4, at this point, still seems to be one of the best chargers still for Nicad batteries.