What are you all using to charge your packs?

I am attempting to use my Novak Millenium Pro to charge my receiver packs (Orion 1200 NIMH) but it only charges for about 2 mins before peaking. I assume I am getting false peaks since the packs were only cycled once. Since I am new to nitro, I wanted to get an opinion from you more experience users on whether or not this was a false peak or if it really does only take a few mins to charge.

Thanks!

Put them in your car and see how they work or take a voltage reading on them. I take it that this is a 6v pack? 5.5v would be discharged. Perhaps they are fully charged. Do you have other packs that your charger works ok on?

I have used the charger many times for my race packs but never a receiver pack. There is a NIMH RX charge mode that I am using....but like I said it cuts out after about 200 seconds. I am not sure on the voltage..its a 5 cell hump pack so at 1.2v that 6v.

Its my 1st time dealing with a receiver pack so I am a little confused.

How many amps are you charging at?
the 1100 packs are sensitive, you can't hammer them like 4-5 amps,,
I never charge mine at more than 1.5 amps,,it ussually takes about 15min to go from 6volts to peak 6.6-6.7 comming off peak

I use this charger for my Tx/Rx and glow driver
it works great,,never over peaks

Hitec 335

Make up a 2 amp bulb discharger and let it pull the pack down until only one element is glowing. After it cools, put it on your charger and set the amperage to .5, peak detect to around .012~.016V, and turn on the long lockout feature. Also, if the pack is new it will need to cycle a few times before it will take much of a charge.

i solder on a female deans connector to my pack then soldered 12G wire to the male. Then used quasar pro to charge. the 1st charge of a receiver pack should be slow. 100th of the Amp ie 1200Mah charge at .12Mah. after that you can charge at 1.2A at most.
Remember that the discharge rate for a receiver pack is low so you don't need to cram the charge into the battery

Good Info guys....

I also have a Deans Connector soldered on there. In fact there on all my connections. I have the charger set at .5 amps and 6 mv threshold. Thats probably too low.

I must be false peaking. I was just unsure whether it was a false peak or because of my unfamiliarity with the samell pack if it was charged in that short time.

I will cycle the packs using the techniques you guys suggested and see how that works.

Thanks!

Where are you from? I'm from worcester

From Milford....not far from you. Turn your PM's on.

please use email

Be careful to not discharge to low on that pack!! Over discharging and over charging are what kills pack. Generally 1.1v per cell is discharged. Be careful!