Anthrax

i got my first car, and it came with 2 1800 Nicad batterys

Now, i've heard all this talk about discharging battery's ? do i need to do it to these Nicad ones ? is there a battery that doesn't require me to discharge ?

Thanks

Rob

joe of loath

iTrader: (1)

lipo's dont need discharging, but theyre expensive and need different ESC's... just run the nicad batteries till the car is really slow then leave them to cool then charge them.

Anthrax

My Charger says it can charge from 1,200 to 3,000 sized battery's

If i get a 3300 nimh battery will it ruin the battery or charger ?

Anthrax

whoops, it can charge any battery's, i was reading the wrong part.

BuggyKing

iTrader: (17)

I run EP 4200's. What I do is when I get to the track I discharge my packs at 0.9v cut off on my Novak tray. I let them cool down and then I charge them at 5amp at 8.5v charge. After running I just put them away until next time leaving a charge in the pack.

robot

iTrader: (1)

what about stick packs how do you discharge them

tc3team

Stick packs are very difficult to discharge if you want to discharge each cell seperately.

Thats why the serious racers use either saddle packs, or an inline formation of cells, to allow their packs to be put in discharge trays.

If you are serious about racing, change your cells to inline or saddle packs and use a discharge tray.

It is possible to discharge them with a resistor and or a lamp, but you wont be discharging the cells equally, if you discharge from the end +ive and -ive terminals where your connections are.