Chager??
 

I was thinking about just using one of those Energizer slow 4 to 8 hour chargers. I have both the 15 mniute charger and the 4 hour charger here in the shop. The print on the plug is just too dammed small for me to read the ratings on it though.

You will mail my package or i will post the pic of you in a dress sitting on harold's lap that i have.:lol:

Now
 

Well now you have to put something pleasant in there for him. Maybe his cells in a ziplock bag wrapped in dog poo, inside another ziplock.:rofl: See what you started now? How about something that jumps out of the box upon opening that can scare the begeeezzus out of him. Or a recording that just keeps repeating "help, let me out of here" that would drive the post office nuts.

I was trying to make something a bit more portable for trips. Also, this will negate the need for me to whip out all my R/C charging stuff when the WII batteries die. :wink:

The trouble with any timed charger is that it can overcharge/undercharge the batteries. A true constant current with either delta-peak or thermal cutoff is really the best. So, that is what I designed.

For someone as OLD as yourself . I thought you could come up with something better than that :lol:.

Swabbie talk
 

Yea but I want to remain a member on here. I have to keep my swabbie talk under control. Every once in a while my wife just looks at me and asks "what did you just say". Of course I just shrug and walk away like I did not hear her. I was a full timer when sailors were still doing drugs and getting drunk every second of the day. I had to learn to hold my own with the best of them. Not to mention I grew up in the projects near Phili, and was one of only three white kids living there at the time. So yes I can come up with much much more if I need to. I pulled some pretty dirty tricks on a few in my day as a means of getting back at them for trying to get at me. We had a thing called greasing back then, and some of the biggest toughest guys tried to get me, but they always under estimated my abilities. Still I try never to cross the line of damaging anyones personal property or messing with anyones food. that is just rude.

I agree i never mess with someone's food or drink.


My dad was a navy man as well untill he retired . He was a chief petty officer . We lived in japan (were i was born ), & we also lived in rota spain.

Retired chief
 

I am a retired Chief myself. ENC(SW) Engineman Chief (Surface Warfare). Retired in May/1997. I served in Holy Loch Scotland twice, Hawaii, and Orlando, Fl. I had alot of fun and learned more than most. When I reported onboard my first Command at the age of 18 I was handed the Alpha engine room as the leading petty officer in charge. You learned fast or you were pushed aside. 20+ years of constant opportunities for the taking. You are forced to stand up and be counted or you get eaten alive. I believe in the compulsary service idea myself. I think every young person should have that kind of encouragement to help them figure out what they want to do with their lives. You grow up fast.

Its true. The older you get the faster time goes by.

I have been to the base in orlando many times. I use to live in winter springs. You might have something with the mandatory service idea . But on the other hand . Do you really want someone there that does'nt want to be there ?.

Are you kidding me.
 

Are you kidding me. I was a boot camp drill instructor for nearly 6 years at the Orlando Naval Training Center(it closed in 1997). When we picked up our companies on the first day of training it was all about getting them haircuts, teaching them how to march to the barraks and the chow hall. On the second day trust me nobody wanted to be there anymore, but they were too scared to run. That was the best job I have ever had in my life. I wasn't there just to collect a paycheck. For me it was about changing peoples lives for the better, and helping them to figure out what to do with their lives. I had a house in Lake Mary for 15 years. After I retired from the Navy I ended up working as a "Ride and Show", rollercoaster tech for 6 years at Universal Studios "Islands of Adventure".

No im not kidding you :lol:. Thru the late 70's 78-79 & the 80's . I lived in orlando . i left to iowa then to tampa area in about 91 or 92. We used to go to the commecary & grocery store. We also went to the hospital there because my dad got frre or pretty much free health care there .

Left over
 

Well the only thing left over now is the Hospital and it is a permenant VA Hospital now. The base was converted into a "Special" housing area with low income and high end homes built in the same development. So that the rich and the poor can live together. I think the Commissary and the PX are still in operation, but I am not really sure. It is hard to see it now after spending over 7 years working on that base in one way or another. It is like a friend died. I sold both of my homes in Orlando right before the big housing bust and got the hell out of there. Our home jumped from $90K to right at $300K, and then down to $80K in just two years time. I got out just in time with over $100K in my pocket.

We actually lived on the base in navy housing while my dad was being dicharged, around 78 or so. I remeber going to the gym to play basketball. I also remember going to the lake & renting the paddle boats they use to have .

Ideas?
 

Hey BrianG since this is a relitively new technology and there does not seem to much out there in the way of a charger designed for these cells, maybe once you get a good design setup you might think about making a few of them and selling them on here for those of us who really do not have a safe way to charge the cells we just purchased??? Just a thought, and I would be more than happy to purchase one after you do your testing and determine that your setup works safely & efficiently. So what do you think?

Well, any R/C NiMH charger will work just fine (they are NiMH after all), just set the charge for ~0.3A and a low delta peak value (~3mV/cell). I was just making this for portability. I was planning on starting a new thread showing the final schematic and assembly instructions and letting people make their own if they so chose.

Got my cells today, thanks to everyone who did the group buy!

Thanks guys.
 

Thanks to everyone getting involved in the LSD AA purchase Sean was able to get a nice size package of cells for us, and mine just arrived today. Thanks Sean for the shipment. Everything looks great and I have the first two sets(of 4) on our Energizer chagers now. I will see how they charge up and then test how well they hold up in some of our remote controls. We got 30 cells so we have plenty to test out and get some long term usage out of. Thanks Sean for helping us all out with these.

My old, very old AA's are beginning to perform very badly. (But they're about 4 years old now, so they had a long life :)) I remembered this topic and I always wanted to buy a few of those Turnigy AA's. But how do they perform on the long term? Who has been using these for a longer time? And should I buy them or not? (I'm planning to buy about 30-40AA's because I need those things so much lol)

Thanks

Patrick

Going strong
 

Well I've had mine for two years now and they are still going strong. I have been using them in all kinds of applications and have not had any problems with any of my cells yet. So I say go for it. Most of our rechargable Energizers & our Duracel's have lasted right about two to three years and then it became difficult to get them fully charged. Plus they never really held a charge for very long.

Ditto here. I've been using them in cameras, remotes, WII controllers, etc and they work great. No noticeable loss in capacity. Have no idea how many cycles they have as I just rotate them as needed, but I'd say at least 20 cycles on all of them so far.

They work especially well in remotes where current drain is quite low - with regular NiMHs, you'd get more self-discharge than from the remote current draw.

I got a dime strip (10 cells) of this "hobbyking LSD".

I do not recommend it. Firstly, the pills are hard to swallow. Secondly, it only made me feel sick and I didn't have any hallucinations.

Get LSD elsewhere.:whistle: