Re: Just got my triton charger.. wowo!! what a unit..

In article <xOqog.17807$ap3.15410@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Poxy <pox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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| > | For those of you who use just NI CADS... on a 600MA 4 CELL pak what
| > | current and voltage setting do you use on your triton? to get a
| > | charge in about an hour
| >
| > Well, a one hour charge = 1C. So for a 600 mAh pack, that's 600 mA.
|
| Batteries aren't perfect devices - so you don't get out exactly what you put
| in, so to get a 1 hour charge you'd probably need to set the charge rate
| closer to 1.5C, or 800 to 900mAh.

Yes, you don't get 100% of the current you put into a battery out of
it. But for a NiCd, fast charged, the current `lost' is much smaller
than that -- it's only a few percent. For a slow charge, the current
lost is higher, and for NiMH cells it's somewhat higher too.

Considering that the battery probably wasn't 100% dead to begin with,
and he said `about an hour', I'd say a charge rate right at 1C should
be just fine.

Of course, the Triton does stop charging for a few seconds each minute
just to verify that it hasn't `missed' the peak, but that only slows
things by about 5% too.

--
Doug McLaren, dougmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
"What's with the 'Intel Inside' warning label anyway?"
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