Sabot

I havn't used my heli for > 7 months now, i dug out out the other day, all in good condition exept my battery is reading 0.1V when it should be ~9V which it was when i left it, my charger is refusing to charge it and it looks like now im going to have to spend £20 on a new battery [:@]

Is there any hope of getting this battery pack to work again?

kermitdafrog

Sabot,

You didn't say what type of battery pack it was. £20 ($35 US) sounds pretty expensive for NiMh, very very expensive for ni-cad, or about right for a 2s lipo, but 9volts doesn't sound right for a 2s lipo.

Edit >>Oops ... do I feel stupid ... the battery type was the thread title ... duh.

Rick

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A peak charged 2 cell lipo should average out at about ~9 volts, 7.4 after use for awhile.

kermitdafrog

credence,

Roger on that, for some reason I had 3s on my mind, and 9v would've been at the lower safety limit for lipos.

I'm having trouble multi-tasking ... I'm at work sitting in my truck awaiting some test results, and probably shouldn't have tried "playing forum"

Rick

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Don't feel too bad, i've been feeling lousy all day because I woke up too quickly? Mailman was ringing at the doorbell with some heli parts, didn't want to wait till tommorow to pick them up, so I jumped out of bed, threw on my clothes and ran to the door in a matter of 10 seconds, had a headache since then

But, the moral of the story is, I got my stuff!

Sabot

Its a 3 cell lithuim ion. im having bad luck with batterys this week - last night i left my SLA battery on charge over night, woke up in the morning to find the charger wire had been ripped to bits by the dog [&o]