<div>I've gone without balance taps and dialed the cell count down on the charger so that it would start the charge process and watched things like a hawk and kept the pack in a ceramic pot with a lid until I got the voltage up high enough that it would start a balance charge for the correct cell count. (Had to start at 2S for a 6S pack!) then I had the charger cycle the packs 4 times with a max draw of 3A on a 45C 5000 pack. I've flown that pack about 10 times now in my Splendor and it seems healthy though the IR is slightly higher than one would expect for a pack that has effectively 15 cycles on it, I usually need to put a pack through 50 cycles before the IR hits that level. </div><div><br></div><div>For people who don't use arming plugs, this is what happens when you power up the ESC but don't give it a radio signal to keep it 'disarmed', get called in for dinner and forget about it being plugged in for 8 hours! The ESC discharged the 6S pack to 6v by the time I snapped awake in the middle of the night and ran down to unplug the pack!</div><div><br></div><div>Peter+</div><div class="mailbox_signature">—<br>Sent from <a href="https://bit.ly/SZvoJe">Mailbox</a> for iPhone</div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 7:16 AM, Snaproll4@aol.com <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Snaproll4@aol.com" target="_blank">Snaproll4@aol.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><font id="role_document" color="#000000" size="3" face="Arial">
<div>Mike, I flew a pack twice at a contest. Well, at least I tried
to until the 5th maneuver. I ended up putting 5150 mah back into a
5000 pack.</div>
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<div>Using a nicad charger for a little while might work(15
minutes). I hooked up my TP1010 without the balancer for 15
minutes. I then plugged in the balancer only for a while and eventually
the 1010 hooked up and I'm still flying the pack after 45 flights.</div>
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<div>Steve Miller</div></font></blockquote></div><br>