Dan Lewis
Heliman
Location: Tampa, FL
| use auto here... no problemsI setup all my batteries (nimh/nicd) for manual mode, but tend to use auto because of the 'one push' ease-of-use. I've been charging batteries for about six months and all continue to peak above their rated capacity. I cycle them several times a week. Based on this personal experience, I tend to disagree with the analogy to the chevy idiot lights. I tend to believe these idiot lights were created by some pretty smart electrical engineers. If I wanted to use manual mode all of the time, I wouldn't have spent the extra money and bought a supernova.
Then again, maybe six months isn't long enough. Maybe the potential abuse I'm giving my batteries by using this feature won't start showing up until much later.
By then I'll probably move on to duralite's... |
I have JUST bought Supernove 250S battery charger (14th Feb) and after reading the instructions find out to my horror that you CANT charge or discharge NI-MH batteries under the automatic mode. This was the sole main reason I bought this charger for its automatic mode as I am an aged pensioner and most deffinately require that most of the complicated setting up proceedures be done for me.I am afraid my brain box these days isn't as sharp as it was 30 years ago.I would like your opinion and advice as to what I should do, as the advertising to sell this charger NEVER mentioned anything about this deficiency ???
on a 700 mah battery i normaly get 785 ahc so thats why i leave it on auto mode
