Turnigy Low Self-Discharge (LSD) NiMH AA's

[suicideneil]

If it says 'intellegent charger' anywhere, then it should shut down once the batts are fully charged, or switch to trickle charging mode- I might find a speky wallwart charger that just plugs into the socket on the side of my speky radio, so I can charge them in-situe.

[skellyo]

FYI to the folks who got in on the group buy...I just got an e-mail that the order has shipped to me. I expect it to be at my house by Thursday or Friday this week.

[skellyo]

All of the AA's were sent out today except hippie's. His package is going out tomorrow as his box was the only one too big to fit in my mailbox!

BTW Jerry, got the MO today, thanks!

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by skellyo

All of the AA's were sent out today except hippie's. His package is going out tomorrow as his box was the only one too big to fit in my mailbox!

BTW Jerry, got the MO today, thanks!

No problem Kelly. I am just happy that you were willing to get this order going so we can all have a shot at using these cells for our needs. Thank you very much for your support and efforts in making this happen. Nice to know that there are still some guys out here who have integrity and are willing to do the right thing for fellow hobbiests. Nice doing business with you Sir.

[rchippie]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

No problem Kelly. I am just happy that you were willing to get this order going so we can all have a shot at using these cells for our needs. Thank you very much for your support and efforts in making this happen. Nice to know that there are still some guys out here who have integrity and are willing to do the right thing for fellow hobbiests. Nice doing business with you Sir.

Kelly is his last name . His first name is SEAN.

[JERRY2KONE]

Originally Posted by rchippie

Kelly is his last name . His first name is SEAN.

And your point is? Reitired US Navy and after 20+ years of using only last names I am too old to start changing my ways now. I'm sure he knew it was meant for him. You do some time serving our Country and then come talk to me about something so trivial. I doubt that he was offended. I know I know I should learn that I am a civilian now. BUT actually now I am a Federal Agent and the same protocal still applies to my every day life.

[rchippie]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

And your point is? Reitired US Navy and after 20+ years of using only last names I am too old to start changing my ways now. I'm sure he knew it was meant for him. You do some time serving our Country and then come talk to me about something so trivial. I doubt that he was offended. I know I know I should learn that I am a civilian now. BUT actually now I am a Federal Agent and the same protocal still applies to my every day life.

BLAH BLAH BLAH Sean is not smart enough to be offended .

[skellyo]

Originally Posted by JERRY2KONE

And your point is? Reitired US Navy and after 20+ years of using only last names I am too old to start changing my ways now. I'm sure he knew it was meant for him. You do some time serving our Country and then come talk to me about something so trivial. I doubt that he was offended. I know I know I should learn that I am a civilian now. BUT actually now I am a Federal Agent and the same protocal still applies to my every day life.

Not offended by it at all. There's actually a lot of us that call each other by our last names at work and refer to a lot of others that way as well. We have a lot of ex-military where I work and deal with the military quite often...especially since they're our customer.

[BrianG]

Cool! They're on their way. I guess I'm gonna have to finish my homemade charger then. Did some tweaks to the schematic posted a while back, and ordered the necessary components. The biggest problem is finding the proper enclosure. Unfortunately, finding one that is the perfect size seems to be impossible; they are either too big, or too small, or the wrong dimensions (wasted space).

[rchippie]

Im just going to use my hyperion 610i to charge mine.

[BrianG]

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.

[simplechamp]

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

[JERRY2KONE]

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

[JERRY2KONE]

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.