Micro-T Batteries

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:30 pm

I just titled this thread in a general way so if anyone else has any good battery tips or info, you can throw it in here.

Here's my tip. You know how the instructions say to NOT leave the car on so the battery runs down to nothing? Well, I accidentally did that, and when I plugged it in to the charger, I got nothing. No red light, no charge. I was pretty bummed because I had just finished re-assembling the whole car after fixing my diff and making a few upgrades. I only have the one battery for it, so I was dead in the water. Anyway, I happened to have a little 3xAA battery holder with leads coming off of it that I use for testing stuff. I thought "what the hell," and plugged the leads into the deans plug on the battery. Over a couple hours, it got enough charge into the Micro-T battery that the charger recognized it again and gave it a full charge. Hooray!

SHAUN · Post by **SHAUN** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:32 pm

I did the same thing. Plugged it in and left it I look over about 10 minutes later and its charging.

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:19 am

I had the same problem, and again with some batteries I ordered. I just whipped out the ol' modified Motorworks bit charger, soldered a micro-t plug on it, and set the wall wart to 6v. Charged them in a few minutes.

As convenient as that was to be charged up in about 4 minutes, I still use the Losi charger because I think its better on the batteries to charge them slower.

sidewinder · Post by **sidewinder** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 2:06 pm

I put regular batteries in a charger made for nicads once to see what would happen. It worked on the first battery but the second burst into flames and melted the charger. it made a heck of a mess. after that I've allways wanted to get some long extension cord and hook up a car battery in a field to some 220 and see what it does.

Oh yeah, DISCLAIMER: dont try this at home...blah blah blah

pimpsmurf · Post by **pimpsmurf** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 6:29 pm

The dipshit who sold me my micro-t left the lipo connected, turned on, and it was reading 0v when I got it. I thought, "What the hell, it's done anyway" so I put it on charge and she ballooned up and got hot. I'm glad my trusty Ultra Peak turned it off quick or I would have had a fire on my hands.

-JNY

SuperFly · Post by **SuperFly** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 9:26 pm

crazydave wrote:I had the same problem, and again with some batteries I ordered. I just whipped out the ol' modified Motorworks bit charger, soldered a micro-t plug on it, and set the wall wart to 6v. Charged them in a few minutes.

As convenient as that was to be charged up in about 4 minutes, I still use the Losi charger because I think its better on the batteries to charge them slower.

How can you tell they are charged in 4 min?

crazydave · Post by **crazydave** » Tue Jun 05, 2007 10:57 pm

SuperFly wrote:
crazydave wrote:I had the same problem, and again with some batteries I ordered. I just whipped out the ol' modified Motorworks bit charger, soldered a micro-t plug on it, and set the wall wart to 6v. Charged them in a few minutes.

As convenient as that was to be charged up in about 4 minutes, I still use the Losi charger because I think its better on the batteries to charge them slower.
How can you tell they are charged in 4 min?

They were toasty warm.

Seriously, I don't know if they were charged 100% to capacity, but its the ol' Motorworks bit charger, ya know, press the button like 3-4x and hope for the best.