Dr Flash posted on this a little while back. Seems that the
fast-chargers don't really charge them all the way up. He was doing
the one-hour fast charge and then putting them through a cycle on the
overnight one. Or that's how I remember it.
Actually, I have an nEveready one-hour charger and an overnight one.
I have noticed that the overnight one will bring up the one-hour
charger a bit if I try, but I don't use enough battery power at any
one time that it makes a whole lot of difference. Regardless of how I
charged them up before, they're usually flat the next time I really
need them. :/
Joel W.
On 2/15/07, ScottGee1 <scottgee1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Yeah, I've wondered about this too. I've read that certain
> manufacturers warn about the use of high capacity batteries.
>
> Add to this that 'AA' NiMH cells are now available in 2700mAh (Sanyo
> commercial grade) and that the market is very competitive and
> capacities are likely to increase.
>
> I've found that getting a good charger isn't easy. I bought a very
> sophisticated model from Radio Shack a number of years ago -- voltage
> readout, auto-discharge, pulse and fast charging. Woo-hoo! All the
> batteries I used and subsequently bought proved to be relatively short
> lived. Or so I thought. It finally occurred to me that the damn
> super charger might be 'off'. So I bought an EverReady charger.
> Better but still not quite right. Then a simple "overnight" RS
> charger and wham! All of a sudden my "bad batteries" were quite
> strong.
>
> What I'd like to know is how does one *test* a charger?
>
> ScottGee1
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