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Hey guys, i was wondering if there could be any possible performance increase by uping the charging amps on a gp 3300, i currently charge them at 5 amps with zero delta peak, i am getting my trintiy discharge tray this week and i will be dead shorting them, is there any charge rate i should use especialy in this situation? any help apreciated.

I use SMCs and according to their websight they recommend 6amp charge with a .05 peak detect. I use Integy Octane2 tray and dead short them with a 10ohm resistor. I solder the resistor while they are still on the tray to insure 0.0v.

Yeah Equalising and discharging has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I used to discharge and equalise every pack after a run but I started to notice a decline in my cells performance so now I leave my cells with charge in them after a run and just recharge them next time I want to use them. Then I discharge and equalise every 5-6 meetings. My cells haven't seemed to fall off like the other ones did.

Your veiw on this would be interesting Tony??

Sam

I usualy charge at 5 amps, i am thinking of going up to 6 amps, i am buying 3 trinity heavymetal discharge trays and i am going to use them to dead short my batteries, i run 3 fusion gp 3300's numbers range from 1.18-1.191 i also have a few other batteries, i haven't tried the sayno 3600's yet are they worth getting?, any ways if you all have any more advice i would apreciate any tips that might help me get the edge at my lhs. thanks guys.

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Everything I have read including Novak and Orion and Trinty says Dead shorting is bad for Ni-mh Batts. And also there is no memory retention meaning you dont have to dis-charge or use the tray with Ni-mh.

I use the novak tray down to .01, but do not dead short isn't that stuff for Nicads.?

Rick

Atually almost every racer at my track ds's they're batts and there is a significant increase in voltage, at the sacrifice of a small amount of run time, takes a few races for the batteries to break in though, rc car action did a article on it, brian kinwald has been doing it for a few years now and his batteries still perform at peak level.

SMC recommends 6.0 amps with 35mv delta peak, so that is what I charge with, works great! If I have time then I re-peak the battery before my run. For discharging I use a Novak Smart Tray.

Hi this is Matt from the USA i been racing on and off for 15 years and im still learning about battery care . What i do is after the run i discharge the pack at 30 amps and let it cool down then put then away thill i get home then i tray then on a trinty 2.5 tray .When the lights go out i put them in my box and have them ready for the next race ther i but on the novak tray and discharge them to .01 on the volt setting . When done i charge at 5.5 at 10 milvolt cut off i have never dumped at this setting and it works for me so i envite you to try this thill then have a happy holodays from the good old USA C-YA

I personaly discarge my packs withe about 2A an put them on the robitronic equalzier for next race.
I charge with 5.5 A to 48C (Clesius) and I try to use them as hot as possible. I noticed the punch to fade away by letting them cool down under ca. 45C (Celsius)
Whats about cutting off by temperatur in generell???