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[Patrick Henry]

I need to charge this battery pack...six sub-c cells, 7.2v 1600a/h




With this charger...variable output.



The charger has the following outputs marked on it: 50-80-120-180-240-300

What would be the best setting to put the charger on to recharge the battery pack? Anyone assist me with this?


Thanks chaps,



Rich

[MikeA]

charge it at 300 i say!!
battery calc says 6.4 hours, which makes makes thats 6 hours 24mins!!
http://www.greenbatteries.com/batterycalc.html

[Patrick Henry]

Ta Mike...I'll wind it up a bit then.




Rich


(interesting link, by the way...)

[malcolmfrary]

Assuming that the numbers are mA, then 120 for a very safe long charge, 180 for a fairly safe long (but not quite as long) charge.  Full whack if you intend and manage to keep a close eye on it toward the end of the charge time.  Battery is a 1600mAH, 1/10 of that is 160mA, so 10 hours at that plus a bit for luck, i.e. overnight.