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09-02-2008, 04:36 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2008 Location: looking for sponsors
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|  elite 2/3a
hey im looking to buy a 6 cell 2/3a pack and was wondering if i could charge them at 1 amp?(peak charger)
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09-02-2008, 05:01 PM
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| Rock Crawler Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: SO CAL
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if its the 1500mah cells your talking about yea, i charge mine at 1.10 amps
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09-02-2008, 05:47 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2008 Location: Hartsville, SC
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thats all I charge mine at is 1 amp. Takes a little longer but I think its better.
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09-02-2008, 05:54 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: May 2008 Location: looking for sponsors
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cool thanks!
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09-02-2008, 06:37 PM
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| Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Toronto
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I'm doing a little experiment with 4 packs, used in my emaxx they are Duratrax 4600 7 cell packs that I rebuilt side by side with good bars so as far as I can tell they're near perfect:-P anyhow, I'm charging 1 set at 1 amp then running for 25 minutes and the other set charging at 4.5 amps and running for 25 minutes gonna see which set dies first. I'll post about it eventually. Reason I'm doing this is too many people have their own opinion about slow charge or fast charge or what have you so I'm going to see for myself. I also have 2 saddle packs of elite 1500's coming from cheapbatterypacks.com and plan on doing 1 at .5 and 1 at 1.5 and see how that goes. |
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09-02-2008, 06:59 PM
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| ~THE SCALE SHOP~ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: KILLEEN TX
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yeah, 1 amp is what i charge mine at.
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09-03-2008, 09:12 AM
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| Newbie Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: CT, USA
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for 2/3 cells its good to charge at a max rate of what they are rated at (one hour charge) 1400mah - max 1.4amps 1100mah - max 1.1amps, but I always do a real slow charge the first few cycles, then after broken in i will pretty much do max charge rate on mine. 1amp charge for those 1500elite cells will be solid. wont take all that long (hour and a half if DEAD DEAD, in theory... but I hear the elites hold more than 1500mah once broken in):-P |
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09-03-2008, 11:57 AM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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If there brand new give them their first charge at .5 amps then 1 amp after that.
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09-03-2008, 12:04 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: 517
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I charge mine at 2 amps, is that bad?
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09-03-2008, 12:11 PM
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| I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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They tend to loose a little runtime if you charge above 1 amp. Old adage is slow charge for run time fast charge for punch.
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09-03-2008, 12:20 PM
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| Quarry Creeper Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: 517
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Yeah I kinda just do that to cut down on the charge time, 10 cells at 2 amps still takes almost two hours...
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09-03-2008, 01:20 PM
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| Newbie Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: CT, USA
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that CANT be a true 2 amps... what type of charger are you running? | |
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