I used mine as an overnight charger. With all 4 ports in use the dam thing was only capable of putting out 250 mAh per port... Fine for small packs, but all but useless for some of the 1600-4000 mAh packs I use. Mine was also prone to false-peaking large capacity batteries. Had a couple of occasions where I took packs it considered fully-charged right off the A4 then discharged them at low rate on me Supertest - which reported 1/2-1/3 full capacity. Took the same pack and charged it with one of my Sirius chargers, then discharged. Hey-presto full capacity.
I basically got to a point where I no longer trusted the thing. It worked for well for small(er) nicad packs, but just didn't suit my needs. I sold it to a fellow on RCU - he's been very happy with it. Horses for courses. Has the Miniron been getting bad reviews? I've been thinking of getting one, but haven't seen much about it besides the importer's writeup. Perhaps I should just add another Sirius to the stable. -==- Barrett -----Original Message----- From: Bill Malvey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2004 11:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [RCSE] Battery food-Charger On 11/10/04 5:46 Barrett Stridiron wrote: > I also owned an Alpha 4. Not rated for NIMH, and would routinely > undercharge packs when I used 3 or 4 ports at a time. Not good. How odd. I have owned three of them. They all worked just fine with NiMH packs for me. Full charge every time, even when using all the ports. I used mostly Device #1 (I). I still use mine for forming charges on new packs. > The Sommer 'Miniron Mobil' charger. This would be the charger that Red ripped a new one in RC Reports?? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bill Malvey RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off. RCSE-List facilities provided by Model Airplane News. Send "subscribe" and "unsubscribe" requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please note that subscribe and unsubscribe messages must be sent in text only format with MIME turned off.
