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

In article <5qp6a2df50mivb1tb0apcu6vfn8snjqt51@xxxxxxx>,
Gig <gig@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| btw you mention diode... i saw a thread about by passing the diode
| for one reason or another what is that? and why would someone do
| something like that...

The diode protects the radio/battery if you plug a charger in that's
backwards, or a piece of metals jammed in there and shorts it out.

It also prevents you from discharging your TX battary through the
jack, and stops some chargers from working (but not the Triton.)

Some chargers have `polyfuses' rather than diodes. This is a
self-resetting fuse. It'll protect you against that hunk of metal
shorting it out, but you can still discharge through it I think. (And
it probably won't protect you from a backwards wired charger. JR
chargers are backwards compared to Futaba chargers, for example.)

| I have a buddy who just got one of those
| $2500 radios we were both wondering.... i doubt he would even do
| anything like that... what ever "that" is..

Personally, I've never bothered. Most of my chargers can charge
through a diode, and if I really do need to discharge a battery, I can
just remove it from the TX and do it that way.

Personally, I'd never buy a $2500 radio :) Instead, I'd buy a $500
radio (probably a Multiplex Evo 9) and then I'd have $2000 to spend on
a few nice planes ...

--
Doug McLaren, dougmc@xxxxxxxxxxx
I'm not a complete idiot -- some parts are missing.
.

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