Can't get the batteries to charge!
 

I was using my Novak on the NiMH setting at 1 amp. No matter what I set the peak setting at it would only charge for about 200 seconds. I then lowered the amp setting to .7 amps and it did the same thing.

Now I just bought the hobbico field charger made for charging the receiver and transmitter packs but it does the same thing. I thought that the battery was bad so I just got the Orion 1400 pack and it is doing the same thing.

Any thoughts???

Is it possible that the pack is already charged? :eek: Not trying to be funny, just tryng to help.

I wish that it was the case. I discharged it and let it cool but it does the same thing.

if your charging off a car battery that could be flat, this happens to me when my car battery goes flat

Packs can false peak sometimes.

Reset the charge a couple of times to get it to take it , it should then get past the funky start and will charge normal till its true peak.

False peaking occurs when you havent used pack in awhile or its a new pack.

When a pack starts to get warm this is when there charging correct and should soon peak. Be sure to not let a battery get over 120F or so just in case that charger is acting funny. Thats when it should stop if not its charging too much.

Also picking up and moving a battery around can also get the charger to false peak due to the spikes that happen when the connection is moved around.

Good luck. Let us know.

I will give it a try off of a power supply. I have been racing rc for 20 years and this one has got me??

What charger is it?

You can also try cycling the pack 4 or 5 times to wake it up.

A Novak millenium and the Hobbico field charger. The Novak is not the Pro model. The Hobbico is brand new.

What chargers are you guys using?

Duratrax ice.

I think you just need to keep restarting the charger after a few times it should go.

On the novak charger, change your voltage threshold to the lowest settings. The novak non-pro version is automatically set at 12mV which is usually used for Ni-Cd.

I just use a combo wall charger for both Tx and Rx, but I do cycle occasionally with my Tekin BC112c and DIS350 combo. I use 1 amp, although sometimes it keeps wanting to false peak, so I drop it to .7 amp.

The wall charger I have is for Ni-cads 6 volts not NiMh, will it still work?

NICAD is going to overcharge your NIMH battery.

Have you tried just restarting the charge process yet? I had an old battery just yesterday only take 200mah and it barely would go up in voltage....went up , then went immediatly flat , then started dropping.

I said watch this , restarted it just once and bam....it stayed flat then 5 minutes later started to slowly climb and I was about to get 1200mah into it. My pack was a 1400 mah pack. Worked perfect!

Id really like to hear your results , this is what most everyone does or suggests. Just try the recharge and it should take.