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Whats the best way to discharge my 4500 Mah? if I connect a glow plug to it it gets too hot.
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Discharging glow plug ignitor!
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That is one way, or you can just let the charge dissipate over time. Depends on how quickly you want this to occur. Also, they do make chargers that can also discharge a battery for you. Just have to find one with that option.
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I will just get another smaller one as backup, nothing worse than a dead glow ignitor or no fuel.
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Hobbico makes a great charger called "Accu-cycle" that charges both ni-cad & ni-mh & completely recycles both kinds (ni-mh doesn't get a memmory) any milla amp, 1 cell up to 8 cell, has a digital read out, has different hook-up (doesn't come with any) I made hook-ups for my glow start using the end off an old charger & a + & - leads from a hardware store, set the Accu-cycle reciever side to 1 cell, set the discharge rate at 500-mA & a charge rate of 125-mA (there's switches for that & a chart on the charger) hit the button, that's it, & just set the TR side to charge & charged the Tr pack at the same time, I looked at alot of chargers before getting this 1 & found some WONT charge both ni-cad & ni-mh together & MOST wont charge anything under sub-c, my radio has an 8-cell AA pack & it handles it fine, & the price is lower than most cycle'rs that dont do as much, oh-yea it also has a trickler so if you dont run for awhile leave it on trickle, I dont work for these people, found a good thing & passing it on, Tower Hobbies has it www.towerhobbies.com, later
oh-yea it also has a digital readout in both min. & mA:bandit:
Hobbico makes a great charger called "Accu-cycle" that charges both ni-cad & ni-mh & completely recycles both kinds (ni-mh doesn't get a memmory) any milla amp, 1 cell up to 8 cell, has a digital read out, has different hook-up (doesn't come with any) I made hook-ups for my glow start using the end off an old charger & a + & - leads from a hardware store, set the Accu-cycle reciever side to 1 cell, set the discharge rate at 500-mA & a charge rate of 125-mA (there's switches for that & a chart on the charger) hit the button, that's it, & just set the TR side to charge & charged the Tr pack at the same time, I looked at alot of chargers before getting this 1 & found some WONT charge both ni-cad & ni-mh together & MOST wont charge anything under sub-c, my radio has an 8-cell AA pack & it handles it fine, & the price is lower than most cycle'rs that dont do as much, oh-yea it also has a trickler so if you dont run for awhile leave it on trickle, I dont work for these people, found a good thing & passing it on, Tower Hobbies has it www.towerhobbies.com, later
oh-yea it also has a digital readout in both min. & mA:bandit:
charging
ok, have you heard of batt. "memmory", ni-mH wont get a memmory cause of there make up, the hot ticket these days, but run down a little faster than ni-cad, ni-cad's WILL get a memmory, it remembers the last time you shut it off, & could die at that point, lets say you have a fully charged ni-cad pack, ran for a bit then went home with the ni-cads 1/2 charged, charged them again & went out the next day, now the pack gets 1/2 way down & completly dies!!!, dead, 0, that it, i've seen this happen more than once, folks go buy another pack thinking there's went bad, like a computer hard drive the ni-cad's get something like a fragment or mark where ever there shut off & could die at any time at one of these "marks" i've seen a ni-cad pack go from 3/4 charge to DEAD in a second sending the car out of control into the side of a house tearing off the front end & tweaking the lower frame & it never drove straight again. Thats why its important to "recycle" & why they make cycle'rs. Mi-mh's dont get this memmory, so if your packs are ni-cad & haven't cycled them in a year get a good return spring on your throtle servo, or a fail safe, cause its gonna happen, + recycleing n-cad's will extend there life & running time, go to www.howstuffworks.com & read up on it, most charger makers tell you to recycle every 30-days if your pack is used alot, later
ok, have you heard of batt. "memmory", ni-mH wont get a memmory cause of there make up, the hot ticket these days, but run down a little faster than ni-cad, ni-cad's WILL get a memmory, it remembers the last time you shut it off, & could die at that point, lets say you have a fully charged ni-cad pack, ran for a bit then went home with the ni-cads 1/2 charged, charged them again & went out the next day, now the pack gets 1/2 way down & completly dies!!!, dead, 0, that it, i've seen this happen more than once, folks go buy another pack thinking there's went bad, like a computer hard drive the ni-cad's get something like a fragment or mark where ever there shut off & could die at any time at one of these "marks" i've seen a ni-cad pack go from 3/4 charge to DEAD in a second sending the car out of control into the side of a house tearing off the front end & tweaking the lower frame & it never drove straight again. Thats why its important to "recycle" & why they make cycle'rs. Mi-mh's dont get this memmory, so if your packs are ni-cad & haven't cycled them in a year get a good return spring on your throtle servo, or a fail safe, cause its gonna happen, + recycleing n-cad's will extend there life & running time, go to www.howstuffworks.com & read up on it, most charger makers tell you to recycle every 30-days if your pack is used alot, later
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