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Old 11-23-2011, 04:44 PM
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You charge them at 2.7amps, they'll get very hot, much hotter than they'e supposed to. You will find the cycle life is very short charging them at this high of a rate.

I consider 1amp a max charge rate for any size AA. I charge my AAs at 0.5 amps (slow charge) as much as I can.
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