I know that my saying you can discharge below 0.9V is going to get a lot of 'stick' because this goes against everything we have been told for NiMH. I am not saying that it is ideal, i am just saying that if your only option to equalise is to use a discharger without a cut-off then it is better to use that than to not equalise at all. Dont leave the battery pack connected for ages. For example I did mine last night, I put the pack on the hearth and kept an eye on it while i watched TV*. Once the six lights went out i measured each cell (still on load) and the voltage of each was ~0.2V. I removed the pack and measured each cell again.. they were all back up at >1.2V. (because they instalntly recover when taken off load) I let the pack cool and then charged it.. it worked fine.
*Rocky II DVD, but any other program or film works just as well.
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