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Old 04-20-2009, 01:31 AM
AJK AJK is offline
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hot first charge, whats goin on?

ok so i went out and bought a new ni-mh 6 cell 1200mah by venom for my rc18t the package said to charge at 1 amp for longer life and 2 amps for better performance, it also said: DO NOT TRICKLE CHARGE! which i thought was odd, so i went ahead and charged it at 1 amp, now the strange part is that it got extremely hot charging at 1 amp, it got hot like i was charging it at 4 amps, so i let it cool off and i put it in the truggy and ran it, it proformed just fine, had a good long run time and it provided plenty of power, my setup is a stock ESC, deans connectors and a Reedy Mini-Max motor. so why did it get so hot? i'm charging it again at the same current to see if it does it again.

my charger is a Dynamite Prophet Plus LCD, fuses are good, and i checked the output current with a multimeter just to make sure it really was at one amp, it was.

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