old batery

[John Petterson]

Bruno,

The real problem is that the battery tends to lose the rest of its capacity
at an unpredictable rate after it gets to the 20% loss stage. I don't even
let mine get that bad - the risk that the plane won't last is too great.

I would not recommend giving them to anyone (except maybe someone you don't
value a friendship with).

But do dispose of them in a safe manner - recycle them somewhere rather than
contaminating a landfill!

John

-----Original Message-----
From: discussion-request at nsrca.org [mailto:discussion-request at nsrca.org] On
Behalf Of brett terry
Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2004 1:01 PM
To: discussion at nsrca.org
Subject: Re: old batery

these batteries are now so inexpensive I don't think it is worth
risking a plane costing hundreds or thousands.

New batteries can be purchased in custom sizes/configurations at many
places, such as www.cheapbatterypacks.com or www.battlepacks.com or
www.dynamoelectrics.com.  There are many new cells out there that will
outperform the cells in our receiver packs, and these cutom pack
makers build packs to the same quality standards as JR, Futaba, etc,
for a good price.  Just a thought...

Even the Li-Po packs are now becoming quite affordable.

Brett
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