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Old 05-14-2011, 05:37 PM   #1
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Default Axial ax-2 burnt up?

Has anyone else's ax2 burnt up when they charged it? Mine did this morning will axial send me a new one?
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Old 05-14-2011, 07:13 PM   #2
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Whats an ax2? Do you mean AE-2?
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Old 05-15-2011, 05:45 AM   #3
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Whats an ax2? Do you mean AE-2?
Why would he charge his ESC??

geekfreek..... did you charge the battery while it was in your rig? Then the battery burned??

What battery? (LiPO, NiMH, etc...)

I have no clue what Axial would do in this case unless you could "prove" that their battery had an issue. Then again, the instructions probably state to charge the battery OUT of the rig, not in it.
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Old 05-15-2011, 07:34 AM   #4
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The new ax2 Transmitter has a rechargeable battery plug on the back that is sapose to work with your rechargeable batteries and mine fried
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Old 05-15-2011, 07:55 AM   #5
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It depends. If you can prove that the radio was defective, then sure, i would say Axial will take care of you. What type of battery charger did you plug into the AX2? The AX2 is not a charger itself. Can you post a picture of the power supply and melted radio?
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Old 05-15-2011, 08:40 AM   #6
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If you exceeded the amp or voltage specs of the RX then it could burn it up
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Old 05-15-2011, 08:45 AM   #7
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He's right guys, there is a plug on the back of the radio that you can charge your batteries using the radio... I'll snap a pic. of mine. If it isnt meant to be used to charge your batteries, I wouldnt understand the point in it. I've never charged my batteries using this radio, but I know on one of my other radios I used my CheckPoint TC-1030 on 1amp charge and never had issues. You may have charged at too high a rate?

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Old 05-15-2011, 08:53 AM   #8
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I believe you have to put rechargeable batteries in there to use the charging port.
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Old 05-15-2011, 09:09 AM   #9
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lmao...yeah, I'm sure it would be ugly if you dont use rechargable batteries. That isnt the issue is it GeekFreek? lol.
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Old 05-15-2011, 06:02 PM   #10
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I used rechargeable energizer batteries and the charger for the energizer batteries which is what the instructions say to do
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Old 08-29-2011, 02:01 PM   #11
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wondering if there's any follow-up on this?

i've also got an AX-2 radio and was wondering if it'll charge some rechargeable AAs inside without issue. i've been using regular AAs, but have a bunch of rechargeable Duracell's laying around - it'd be nice to be able to charge inside the radio since my charger only does 4 at one time. i don't want to end up in the same situation as geekfreek95
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Old 08-29-2011, 02:19 PM   #12
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I guess some depends on the batteries.

Usually rechargeable Energizers are an alkaline chemistry which is a bit different from NiCAD cells. It's possible the wrong charger was used for the battery chemistry.

Wish the OP did a follow-up.
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Old 08-29-2011, 02:42 PM   #13
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Are you sure you used the right charger?
Futaba has a different polarity on the plug than JR for example.

I was going to use my Futaba wall charger on my DX3 radio. I opened my Futaba radio and checked which parts of the charging jack the positive and negative wires went to then I opened the radio case on the DX3 and realized that the polarity was opposite.

Having the polarity reversed would certainly burn up your radio.
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