Originally Posted by
JonBoy
I have some old Nicad Sanyo 2400 I game to my nephew. He just ran one and its very hot. How do Nicad Cells go bad? will they burn up? just stop working? Thinking now I need to take these back from him before he has issues with them.
How hot? In my nicd days my packs would simply not hold a charge anymore. I never had packs get hot because they were bad. They were always hot after a run though. I mean too hot to hold hot, (the result of trying to run a 12t with 1200mah SCRs). If these are packs that were sitting for a long time and this is the first time using them agian that might be a reason but I couldn't be sure. Do they get hot while you charge them or just after running?
What are you running them in??? a 2400mah anything (other than lipo) is going to get hot if your trying to run a hot modified or BL set-up. It's your nephew so I'm guessing that's not it but you never know
that's my $.02