dead battery

[Bill Glaze]

Batteries are cheap.  Airplanes are expensive.  Bill Glaze

Del K. Rykert wrote:

>My vote also Wayne would be to replace. It is down in capacity and dead
>NiCad's have been known to reverse polarity easily after being run down
>dead. I don't know when or how that occurs but I have had it happen to me
>more than once.
>  A rule of thumb I always use is I cycle a new pack and almost always get
>more than their rated capacity, "SR" packs, and when that initial capacity
>that pack had drops to 80% or 2 years of use I retire them. I never go to
>80% of their rated capacity.
>                          del
>               NSRCA - 473
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>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Wayne Galligan" <wgalligan at goodsonacura.com>
>To: <discussion at nsrca.org>
>Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 11:53 AM
>Subject: dead battery
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>>I accidentally bump the switch on my flight pack and it was on for about a
>>week.  1500 mil NiCad pack.  It took 1650 mil on the recharge.  I then
>>cycled the pack twice and both times it would discharge about 1250mil and
>>recharge about the same.  I am using a SuperNova charger and discharged at
>>.5 amp and recharged at .2 amp   Does this seem like the pack is OK or is
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>it
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>>time to replace?  This pack is about 1 1/2 years old.
>>
>>Wayne Galligan
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