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06-22-2008, 09:53 AM | #1 |
Rock Stacker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Here and There
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| New Charger and New Battery...and I'm lost?
Bare with here comes some newbie questions........ I bought a MegaVolt 4100 Stick battery for my Slash and came to find out that my current charger wouldn't charge it. So I talked to my LHS and they recommended the Duratrax Intelli Peak Pulse Charger. It was a good price so thats my setup now. Except neither the battery or charger has any instructions. The charger came with a very vague sheet on its use. It said I need to slow charge the new pack at 1amp or less for it's first charge. Then it goes on to say that a 100MaH should take 15hours so by that my 4100 should take 41 hours? I don't get it. So right now the new 4100 has been sitting charging for about 17 hours at .5 amps. Then once it's been charged how do I normally charge it? The knob only say 3 amps for NimH battery's yet I charge my 1500 Nimah crawler packs at 8amps on my other charger. On this model charger it shows I can only go to 3 amps on a NimH and anything higher should be a NiCd. Any suggestions/instructions would be appreciated. I'm gonna try and get over and talk to the shop I got it from but I'm trying here first. just as reference this is the charger I got |
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06-22-2008, 10:00 AM | #2 |
Pebble Pounder Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Central Florida
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You should be able to download the manual for that charger here: http://www.duratrax.com/pdf/index.html Actually........yours is here: http://manuals.hobbico.com/dtx/dtxp4100-manual-v1_2.pdf Last edited by FL Knifemaker; 06-22-2008 at 10:03 AM. |
06-22-2008, 10:13 AM | #3 | |
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Don't do that. Charge those at no more than 1C, meaning 1x their capacity. Meaning 1.5 amps. They're fragile cells and you're killing them charging them at a high rate. You should charge your 4100 at 4.1 amps, if you can. But just skimming the instruction sheet it says not to go above 3 amps. So maybe stick to 3 amps. Slower, lower amperage charging treats the batteries much better than high amp settings. | |
06-22-2008, 10:44 AM | #4 |
I wanna be Dave Join Date: May 2007 Location: Taylors Falls just hanging with the MNRCRC crew.
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| I use the same charger and I charge my NiMHs at .05 it takes a little longer but I get really long run times from my packs. "The slower you charge them the longer the run time".
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06-22-2008, 11:01 AM | #5 | |
RCC Addict Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Irritable Isle
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If they are nimh, use the 1C guide; 1500 @ 1.5 and 4100 @ 4.1. You will not have a problem with that guideline and you should have less than an hour of charging time. | |
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