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Not used my gear for a few years!
30 December, 2016, 13:28
Hello, just wanting to know if I can salvage any of my batteries or buy new.
I have standard NIMH batteries and one 7.4 lipo all flat, the lipo is not swollen but I'm presuming beyond saving?
Are the NIMH batteries chargeable still? Should I just get new ones also best charger currently available? I have the vapex one for the NIMH and some cheap blue lipo charger which to be fair did the job.
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30 December, 2016, 13:35
Re: Not used my gear for a few years!
Lipo may actually be recoverable, depends how much charge it had when it was stored, but actually getting a charger to charge it may be your biggest issue
Ni-Mhs are unlikely to hold a charge
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30 December, 2016, 13:38
Re: Not used my gear for a few years!
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Lipo may actually be recoverable, depends how much charge it had when it was stored, but actually getting a charger to charge it may be your biggest issue
Ni-Mhs are unlikely to hold a charge
Really i thought it would be other way around lol cheers mate. So once the nimh batteries are flat they are fooked? No problems with buying new was just checking before i get rid.
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30 December, 2016, 13:42
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I'm not saying the lipo will work, but certainly my old Ni-Mh batteries are beyond useless
It's not the fact they've gone flat, it's the amount of time they've been flat. From experience, Ni-Mh batteries tend not to age well
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30 December, 2016, 17:06
Re: Not used my gear for a few years!
*** THIS IS BY NO MEANS AN OFFICIAL SUGGESTION ***
From experience, if I had a flat lipo that would not accept a charge AND was NOT swollen:
I have placed on a NiMh charger for 15 seconds and then attempted to charge normally on lipo settings.
Sometimes I have done this once, other occasions have taken 3 attempts, but every time I have managed to get enough residual charge in the lipo for it to accept a full charge and balance.
I used a fireproof battery bag and placed that in a metal tin...... Just in case.
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30 December, 2016, 17:29
Re: Not used my gear for a few years!
I've plugged the lipo in and it is recognised as a 2s and seems to be charging 😑
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30 December, 2016, 20:25
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Now fully charged i may have been lucky
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31 December, 2016, 18:40
Re: Not used my gear for a few years!
Both might work I used one of my nimhs for the first time in over a year the other day it was OK. Though lipos give significantly better performance imo
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