Hello Guys:
I recently bought a Spektrum S2100 smart charger from my local hobby shop.
I have several nickel metal hydride batteries that I am perfectly willing to believe are pretty well run down.
My problem is that, for whatever reason, my Charger consistently states “no battery detected” when I try to charge a nickel metal hydride battery, incidentally, regardless of whether it is fitted with a Tamiya, Dean’s, or Traxxas connector.
It charges Lipo batteries just fine, BTW, but of course, with a Lipo, you have the connector that plugs into the balancing board and tells you the charge of each cell. There is no such thing, as you all well know, with a NIMH battery. So, really, I have no way of knowing the actual state of charge of my NIMH batteries.
The guys at my LHS are great; I can’t even imagine how they could possibly be nicer to me than they always are. One of them told me that my issue with NIMH was something that new smart chargers just did. That he has seen it before, that when a NIMH battery gets run down past a certain point, these new “smart” chargers simply do not acknowledge the battery, and so, of course, won’t charge the battery.
Again, this Charger works just fine with Lipo batteries.
So: Does this description match any of your experience with these chargers? And if so, can any of you recommend an inexpensive, maybe NIMH-only, AC powered charger that will fill this current gap in my ability to charge my NIMH batteries?
As always, thanks!
Out4lox,
Weston, Florida
I recently bought a Spektrum S2100 smart charger from my local hobby shop.
I have several nickel metal hydride batteries that I am perfectly willing to believe are pretty well run down.
My problem is that, for whatever reason, my Charger consistently states “no battery detected” when I try to charge a nickel metal hydride battery, incidentally, regardless of whether it is fitted with a Tamiya, Dean’s, or Traxxas connector.
It charges Lipo batteries just fine, BTW, but of course, with a Lipo, you have the connector that plugs into the balancing board and tells you the charge of each cell. There is no such thing, as you all well know, with a NIMH battery. So, really, I have no way of knowing the actual state of charge of my NIMH batteries.
The guys at my LHS are great; I can’t even imagine how they could possibly be nicer to me than they always are. One of them told me that my issue with NIMH was something that new smart chargers just did. That he has seen it before, that when a NIMH battery gets run down past a certain point, these new “smart” chargers simply do not acknowledge the battery, and so, of course, won’t charge the battery.
Again, this Charger works just fine with Lipo batteries.
So: Does this description match any of your experience with these chargers? And if so, can any of you recommend an inexpensive, maybe NIMH-only, AC powered charger that will fill this current gap in my ability to charge my NIMH batteries?
As always, thanks!
Out4lox,
Weston, Florida
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