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Old 05-24-2009 | 04:52 AM
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rnd_tang
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Thanks for all the help guys, I did my first charge this weekend.

Started off abit weird. I took it out of the pack. Set it to a Discharge > Charge cycle. It finished in about 5 minutes.

Thought it was abit weird.

So I pulled it out, plugged it into the car, and sure enough nothing.

So I put it into the charger. Set it to 4.2A (4200mah cells) and that finished charging in about 11 minutes.

Thought that was abit weird. Put it back into the car, there was enough charge in it for me to drive around for a bit.

Then after that. I set it to 3 Charge > Discharge cycles. That took more than 12 hours to do!

And now everything seems to be working fine. Charging at 4.2A takes about 50 minutes.

I may have damaged that battery... I m not sure, but yea, live and learn.

Thanks everyone for your help.
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