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Old 05-16-2008 | 09:08 AM
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I left one of my batterys in my CX2 over night pluged in and when I put it on the charger the two lights just blink. Its down to 4volt 1.95 on one cell and 2.05 on the other. Is there any way to save it.
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Old 05-16-2008 | 09:14 AM
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Try a real Balance charger with low voltage like 250mah, and set for single cell. and then it's a maybe.

Yeah don't do that. LOL

DY

BTW we've all done it.
Old 05-16-2008 | 12:41 PM
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And please be very careful if you do decide to try and charge it.
From everything I've read it seems that the majority of lipo fires occur when attempting to charge a battery with one or more very low cells.

I'd get rid of it.
But if you do charge, do so in a safe area in a safe container and watch it.
Old 05-16-2008 | 01:30 PM
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I trashed it, I tried to charge for a little bit and i ck the voltage and it went down a little . It was 4.0 and went to 3.8 so I decided to not take a chance with it .
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Old 05-16-2008 | 03:54 PM
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Carl,

Best to be on the safe side and dispose of it.. It's not worth catching the house on fire, for the price of a battery.

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Old 05-16-2008 | 04:31 PM
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I would like to save the jst and the ballance ends so I cut them off and taped up the wires so they will not short out. This is the second battery I lost in a week I had another one puff up so I tosed it also.
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Old 05-16-2008 | 05:01 PM
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Carl,

You've had some bad luck with batteries, two batteries in a week. Yikes!... I'm the same way, I save everything I can, like you did with the jst connector. Don't push the batteries to much. Example, I know I can fly my Lama V4 for 12 minutes on a battery charge.
I set 'er down after 8 minutes. I use a small digital kitchen timer to let me know when my flying time is up.

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Old 05-16-2008 | 06:05 PM
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My CP Pro and CX2 are both on my DX6i and for the life of me I cant remember to hit the trainer switch to start the timer. ( like I forgot to unplug the CX2 battety ) .
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Carl,

Well, we all have brain pharts for sure. Just put a sticky post-em on the TX to remind you to set the timer. Oh and to unplug the battery too. Don't feel bad about that, I've done it too.. Also, left the TX on overnight. Hmmm, dead batteries..

Take care and have blue skies,

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Old 05-16-2008 | 07:39 PM
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Yeah I gave some bad advice on the battery I had a totally separate issue with my electrifly battery not taking an initial charge.

Throw it away and get a new one, lesson learned. on both yours and my side.

DY

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