John Ramsay Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 (edited) 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? Edited June 17, 2022 by John Ramsay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigGinge Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kpowell911 Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 It does seem a short life span, but it is a budget nimh. Look at a better quality NIMH, or look into changing to LIPO If its a possibility Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted June 17, 2022 Share Posted June 17, 2022 Does your esc do both lipo and nihm ? Check its not on lipo setting as it could be lvc kicking in 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Ramsay Posted June 21, 2022 Author Share Posted June 21, 2022 Thank you very much for all the advice. I will now go away and find out what LIPO means!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stormbringer Posted June 21, 2022 Share Posted June 21, 2022 Lipo is lithium polymer and have a bit more poke to them compared to nihm batteries Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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