trakpower 4800 saddle help

[alex.anderson]

i think my saddles are below 3volt and not charging any ideas in gettting them back to life

[mattJT]

Originally Posted by alex.anderson

i think my saddles are below 3volt and not charging any ideas in gettting them back to life

I'd imagine the answer would be something along the lines of their dead, and not to risk trying to bring them back to life.

[Whiskers]

I've heard that if you charge them slowly on the nihm setting for a couple of minutes until the voltage goes over 3v and then put them back on lipo charge but while doing this don't take your eyes off them!

[racingdwarf]

I have seen that done, and it worked...but its a bit, not the thing to do in your house/shed.

A guy at our club had left his lipo pluged up ,in the car for about too months in his garage! drained the lipo right down, one of the lads did plug it to his Nihm charger and just put just enough in it to get it going again on the lipo charger and after that all seemed ok...for a club basher,

[fidspeed]

+2 on the above info as previously stated be careful !!!

or just send em to me !!!

regards Dave

[Col]

Personally I'd take the sensible option and dispose of them in the correct manner and buy new ones.
Batteries are just bombs in nice packaging...

[super__dan]

Someone who I really respect and I beleive knows what he's talking about explained when Lipos first came out that the the damage to Lipos is done when they are overly discharged but that the risk only happens when it is re-charged. So whilst it's easy to make a lipo that's been deep discharged start charging again (by forcing it above 6.0V on a nimh setting) this is where it is at it most dangerous.

Now I don't pretend to really understand the outcomes and likelyhoods but I just urge you to use some caution. Is it really deep discharged or just a fraction below 6.0V?