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The Battery
Charger!
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We do suggest one
of the three High-end analyzer options on the market today
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Cadex, Christie,
or PAG Analyzer / Chargers
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These three have
No continued trickle charge mode which is a silent killer
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We carry, promote,
and sell all three
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We never suggest
using any shiny semi-sophisticated smart charger on your
expensive battery packs.
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We Never suggest
using Any charger that uses a continued trickle charge after
full charge. The reasons will be explained later on this
page and other links that we provide. A trickle charge
is a silent killer and Never harmless.
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Battery
Handbook
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My rough draft and
it needs to be updated. Browse and take what you need.
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Cadex 1 About 7 sections total in the links. Follow
the navigation buttons at the bottom of each page in this
link. These are Extremely well written articles.
When I discovered these articles in, "The Greenlight Lies", I
stopped bothering with my very rough draft. Their
opinion is very like my own.
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Heat, a silent
killer
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The more heat your battery pack is
exposed to, the shorter your total charge-discharge cycles
will become. Many photographers leave their battery
packs in automobiles for long periods of time and that extreme
heat is like working in the desert. It really tears up a
battery pack. Extreme cold is also not good for your
battery packs function, but heat will kill them.
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How can I reduce the heat my battery
packs are exposed to?
For years Broadcast Engineers and
Professional Film Photographers have been asking us about ways
to reduce heat and increase the life of their battery packs
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Purchase Coleman, Igloo, Rubbermaid or
other brand quality coolers to store your battery packs.
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Place any foam egg crates that you use
inside the coolers between the battery packs for
transporting.
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Do not place ice or those blue freezer
packs inside the cooler. Some photographers have taken
this extra step in enthusiasm and produced condensation
inside their decks or other equipment.
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By using the cooler you are storing the
battery packs at the ambient temperature.
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If you are in an already hot
environment you may be able to do the actual storing of the
packs after going inside your vehicle with the engine running
and the air-conditioner on, creating that artificial interior
ambient temperature which is of course cooler than the
ambient outside temperature. If your battery packs are
to be shipped, then use the coolers to ship them.
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When charging the battery packs, charge
them in the coolest area possible. Also, while charging
set the battery packs on the most narrow side that will still
stand up on your surface. This will allow more heat
dissipation from the charge of the battery pack.
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When possible, do not charge the
battery immediately after full discharge. Allow the
battery to cool before charging when possible.
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Purchase battery packs that are built in
a flat design and not a nested or 6 pack design as they have a
harder time dissipating heat.
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Avoid trickle charge chargers or
charges that go into some type of trickle charge after the
battery has reached full charge. Leaving a fully
charged battery on trickle charge for a weekend over 52
weekends is equivalent to a full years use of the battery.
The trickle charge treats the battery like a crock pot treats
a roast.
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We recently had a gentleman call about
his auto-resetting circuit breaker opening in the charge
mode. He was in unusually hot weather and in bright
sunlight. His charger was in an un-air-conditioned
building directly in front of a large thick plate glass
window. Ouch, I was sunburned! The breaker was
saving his battery and triggered him to call us. Thus
educating him on proper handling of his battery packs.
Everybody's Happy Now!
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NEVER DISCHARGE
BATTERY PACKS WITHOUT A VOLTAGE CUTOFF OF BETWEEN .8V & 1.0V PER
CELL. HIGH DISCHARGE RATES CREATE MORE HEAT THAN A BAD CHARGER!
HEAT IS A NUMBER ONE ENEMY OF ANY BATTERY PACK!
Once
we get past the old fable of MEMORY, we find that today's
battery problems are not memory so much as they are unbalanced
cells or reverse discharge cells within the
battery pack. Heat deteriorates the insulator between the plates
of metal inside the cell.
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Send your battery packs to Rathbone
Energy for Rebuilding or Recelling!
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1990, All Rights Reserved.
Last Revised September 09, 2002
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