Originally Posted by cannon
Andrew,
On my CDC it takes about 4 minutes to repeak a battery. Therefore if you set the lock out to say 3 minutes it will not interfere with the voltage drop detection if you are repeaking.
My CDC and ICE chargers are set up identical, however the ICE charger tends to false peak ocassionally. The CDC never has. The false peakings dosent not overly concern me as i never leave the charging batteries unattended (joys of having young kids). However someone who may not like it, may set the peak delay considerably higher.
This is a really good thread and i am sure everyone who has read it will now go back and check their charger settings (me included). In my first year of racing i went for eleven months and did not see one exploding battery, but in the space of two weeks, i have seen (and heard) two. All it takes is one person to get hurt and the offending club may as well pack their bags and go home.
What is even more scarier is lipo's are more popular and have a tendancy to explode with a bigger bang.