Just overcharged another battery pack.

[ohmygahitscoby]

Does anyone know if the Five Star 5501 charger is suppose to stop charging once the timer is done or not?

 

[digger]

Don't know anything about that one, but I would like to know.

I was thinking all of the chargers went to a "trickle charge" when they got done. I've got this one http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXL357&P=SM , but I need to update pretty bad.

 

[ohmygahitscoby]

What's trickle charge? Mine does do that though.

 

[olds97_lss]

After it peak charges a pack, it drops the current flow to the battery to a much lower amount to keep the pack topped off.

 

[ohmygahitscoby]

Hmm. If it is in trickle charge mode, can it still overcharge a battery? I read online it's suppose to keep the battery charge even.

 

[olds97_lss]

Yeah... just not as fast or as bad.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

Well I have a charger I bought really cheap on ebay and I assumed it would go into trickle mode like my others, but when I woke up I had a battery pack about ready to melt. I learned a valuable lesson, just glad I didn't catch the house on fire.

 

[ohmygahitscoby]

Yeah. But remember that it means it'll just charge it slower.

 

[psunitro]

Timed chargers are an easy way to ruin all of your packs. Get yourself a charger that has a cut-off! It may be a little more money now, but if you add up the packs you will ruin, it is soooo worth it!

 

[ohmygahitscoby]

I know, I thought the one I had was a cut-off, I was wrong. I'll check if I can return it to the LHS and exchange for a new one.

 

[djdoug99]

My Charger trickles for 50 minutes after the fast charge. One it's done with the trickle charge, it goes into sleep mode, so I don't need to worry about overcharging.

 

[CharliesTheMan]

dj, I would love to know the make and model of the charger that you have

 

[Kfarron1]

Prophet sport chargers work good and have amp choices to charge at, also have the connectors for your cars battery as well as the house plug...

Good charger, I think it runs about $35

 

[w bill]

Does anyone know if the Five Star 5501 charger is suppose to stop charging once the timer is done or not?

Ethier suppose to shut off or go to trickle there is something wrong with your charger get a new one before you have a pack blow up in your face.

 

[Racer 1966]

Prophet sport chargers work good and have amp choices to charge at, also have the connectors for your cars battery as well as the house plug...

Good charger, I think it runs about $35

Dude,check the dates on these threads. You keep digging up these OLD threads,this one is 3 years old.

 

[frickenjoey]

Holy crap the last post on here before he dug it up was CTM....bury that thing back!!

 

[Rolex]

Buried it.