Hi folks

I just got my first "non wall-wart" charger (Triton). I just used it this afternoon to cycle a 4 cell 600 mah RX pack. I set the discharge cycle at 0.3 A and the charge cycle at 0.6. It seems to have worked beautifully but it only took 64 minutes to complete a full charge cycle. Battery was not warm or anything. This may very well be normal....but having only used overnight wall-wart chargers before I don't know. I sure hope so because this thing sure seems to work nice!


Thanks

Also, I tried to do a discharge/charge cycle on my old Hitec Focus 4 transmitter and for some reason the Triton will not discharge it. It went straight into the time delay and then the charge cycle. When I tried to just run a discharge cycle it "ended" right away. Is there a diode of some kind in this radio? I have the battery hard-wired in so I can't take it out. My everyday radio is a Hitec Eclipse 7. Can we discharge these? Or do they only charge?


Thanks

I saw on a web site instructions on how to bypass the diode, but not sure that's a good idea. The factory has a good reason or wouldn't put it in. I sometimes wonder if all this about battery memory, cycling, etc isn't a little overstated. I have 3 radios that are over 10 years old, original TX batteries. I don't own a cycler, although occasionally I just leave the TX and RX on in my shop until things start to "jiggle" a little. Batteries are weird critters.

I don't know much about the Triton, but I noticed something in your post. If you set the charge rate at .6A, which is the same as 600 mah, then i would think it would be fully charged in one hour??. (.6A X one hour = 600 mah) So 64 minutes would mean the battery must have been properly discharged. Sounds good to me