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Nope!,...... I think that I might have also had a similar experience with
the Astro charger.
<BR>I had a pak that had been in storage for about 3 weeks and decided
to top it off before flying, but noticed when I connected it to the charger
that it started out at the maximum voltage and started increasing from
there into territory I had never seen before.Recognizing that I had never
seen voltages this high displayed on the screen before, I immediately terminated
the charge. This all happened within a period of 15-20 seconds.
<BR>G.
<P>jeffghughes@comcast.net wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> What everybody is assuming is that this was
a screw up.It could also just have been a bad cell The manual does
say not to put a fully charged pack on the charger and discharge first
if any doubt.
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Original message --------------
<BR>From: Bob Richards <bob@toprudder.com>
<BR>I can't say how the charger works, but my uneducated guess would be
that the voltage rise (internal impedance) with the application of current
would be different between charged/uncharged cells.
<P><B><I>Grow Pattern <pattern4u@comcast.net></I></B> wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">What
still bothers me is:- If 3 fully charged cells = 12 V plus, and 4
<BR>discharged cells = 12 V Plus, then how does the charger know which
is which?</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<P><NOBR><B>Subject: </B>Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Dodged a Bullet Today!!!!</NOBR>
<BR><NOBR><B>Date: </B>Wed, 22 Mar 2006 18:19:38 +0000</NOBR>
<BR><NOBR><B>From: </B>Bob Richards <bob@toprudder.com></NOBR>
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