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<DIV>Like I said, "topping" it off is a no no with this charger.</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- Original message -------------- <BR>From: George Kennie <geobet@gis.net> <BR>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.
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">-------------- 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></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> <BR><NOBR><B>To: </B>NSRCA Mailing List <nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org></NOBR> <PRE>_______________________________________________
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