"Phil Allison" wrote in message
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"Peter"
"Ian Field"

I would check first to see if the battery is being adeqautely charged
by the Chinese charger. Charge the battery in situ, and then
remove it, and do a discharge test, and see how many mAh it supplies.


** I reckon you have nailed it.

That charger is meant to bring a 500mAh cell up to full capacity in about
12 to 24 hours and hold there it will a trickle of about 30mA.

Its much more cheap & nasty than that! The recommended charge time is 8h, if
I left it charging for 24h the battery got pretty warm.

The 2400mAh battery gets fairly warm by 24h.