"therustyone" wrote in message
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On 5 Sep, 21:08, misterroy wrote:
Both are fameart, one older than the other, I threw out a third charge
I had all were £10 or so. The new frame art came with 4 batteries and
it can seem to charge them up. I'm putting same batteries in to get
charged at he same time, I'm just not getting charge into the atteies,
apart from one set of 4 eneloop ones which are great no matter which
charger I put them in. Its mainly my radio and kids toys, but the use
is not high, apart from the radio which always get the good batteries.
ome of the frameart bartteries hardly seemed to take a dcent charge at
the first one.
What am I doing wrong, I am on the point of buying a big box of non-
rechargables and trashing the rest.
ta

Looking up this charger it is a fast 1-2 hour one and this type are
all well dodgy. If it thinks the cell is knackered, ie it measures a
voltage a lot less than 1.0v or a reversed polarity, it might refuse
to start charging at all. The cell might be still OK but needs to be
slow charged for half an hour in a traditional slow charger first to
get the volts up to near nominal. This defeats the object of having
a fast charger.
I've destroyed a number of previously good NiMH cells on chargers
similar to this due to overheating as the methods of measuring a full
charge are not reliable.

the rusty one


Yes, I keep an old slow charger for starting off cells that are rejected by
the 'intelligent one' too. I think the intelligent one does get them filled
more reliably once the cells are recognised though.

S