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Battery fault


John Ramsay

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I bought a Binergy  28408 1500mah pack at christmas and have used it for around 30 minutes once or twice a week since. 6 months later, when fully charged using a functioning charger, it is behaving as though nearly depleted -i.e. working ,  stopping after a  couple of minutes, then working again after a couple of minutes, then stopping again and so on. The car works perfectly with a different battery. 

 

Is this life-span normal?

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That does seem to be a little on the low side for the number of charge cycles you would hope to get from a decent Ni-MH battery pack (assuming you have charged it around 50 times so far) but potentially not that surprising either given the hard life these can have in an RC car. If just one of the cells that has been used to make up the pack has died that could cause the whole pack to act in the way you describe and probably means its time to recycle it and find a new one.

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