Originally Posted by
Jaap
I know that my battery has a capacity of 1600 mA but when I discharged it completely and charged it again the charger indicates that it charged it with 980 mA. Does that seem odd?
Also when I begun to discharge the battery, the battery checker indicated that the battery wasn't "safe" and it was in the "attention" levels and I only used the battery for 3-4 minutes of buggy runtime. Does that seem odd as well?
You need to cycle the rcvr batt a few times to get it back into optimum shape. Looking at the figures, apparently its been sitting a while unused? NiMh self discharges and needs to be cycled every 30 days to maintain good condition. Cycle it until you see the discharge mah level off. Thats as good as the batt is going to get. It will be better for the batt if you don't use charge/discharge rates more than 1amp. It takes some time, but I cycle mine at 0.5a/0.5a.