discharging Tx pack?

[tallyram]

i'm using the adapter that came with the spektrum. i put a deans connector on it and plug one end into the Tx and the deans onto the charger. reason for discharging is that i have had these batts for 6 months without use. they only charged for like 5 minutes before peaking? tried repeaking, lasted 5 minutes again. i wanted to discharge and then charge to get a baseline. what do you suggest?

[BrianG]

Hmm, maybe one cell was overdischarged and now is too low? Are all the cells about evenly warm at the end of the charge? They should be. If one is cool, then it may be bad.

You could try charging at the lowest rate you have on the charger for a VERY long time and see if that doesn't wake them up.

If you have a 10ohm resistor (1/2 watt), you could use that to discharge each cell. Just keep a voltmeter on it so you can monitor the cell voltage. Once it gets to about 1v, go on to the next one.