To not ruin a battery pack

[Metalhead Matt]

I purchased a nice 8 cell 4600. I have a charger that will charge it at 1.8 amps. The battery calls for 2.8 amps. Will using this charger have any long term ill effects on the pack? I only plan on using it for a few weeks and seldom at that. Maybe 10 times at the most. I've also heard that nimh's have no memory effect and to NOT run them until the truck stops. I usually stop once it slows considerably. I figure that's my best bet. One last thing, the battery gets pretty warm when I run it(only once). Never to hot to grab and hold on to. I have no temp gauge and won't for a few weeks. Any red flags here? I know I'm asking a lot here and all advice is totally appreciated!

 

[h8z2luze]

It all sounds pretty normal to me. What are you running it in? Charging at lower amps is fine. It will just take longer to charge. I charge my 3800's at 3.5 amps lol. I have always been told .1 - 100mah is safe so for a 4600 for that theory it should be ok to charge them at 4.6 amps. Don't quote me on that though. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong.

 

[Metalhead Matt]

It's an old rustler with a super rooster, 12t titian, 2.8 talons off a pede. 25-76 gearing.

 

[fatkid8523]

batteries heating up is normal. they will do that if you use them for thier full charge. charging on low amps might even prolong your batteries life.

 

[Metalhead Matt]

That's what I was thinking. Thanks for the piece of mind! I always let them cool off all the way before charging, so I think I'll be ok.

 

[abadk9420]

It's an old rustler with a super rooster, 12t titian, 2.8 talons off a pede. 25-76 gearing.

Just an FYI your gearing seems very high for the combo you are running, you would get lower battery, motor, and esc temps if you run a smaller pinion gear or a larger spur gear, you must have one hell of a top end on that thing with your current gearing, but it also putting a lot of load on all your electronics, just from experiance racing stadium trucks we ran smaller pinions like 14-18 on lower turn motors such as a 12t and larger pinions on 27t stock motors like 18-22 with a 87t spur gear, but your tranny gearing may be a lot different then mine was on my RC10T3.....but I guess with 8 cells you might be ok, but your super rooster might not like it for to long unless it is rated for that kind of voltage....

 

[Metalhead Matt]

It loves it. Barely gets warm. Stepped down to 20t pinion.