Hobbico Accu-cycle Charger User Manual

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Hobbico instruction manual accu-cycle plus. Get file exe I 4AC7C2FD-CEE4-4CE4-9846-A9 C Documents and Settings M M Local Settings Temp BIT106. Microsoft should continue to support older devices, certainly. Because it will auto dim and things start conflicting I think. Hobbico instruction manual accu-cycle plus Mirror Link #1. This is the Hobbico AC/DC Accu-Cycle Elite Battery Cycler. Charges, Discharges and Cycles NiCd, NiMH and Lithium-based battery packs. Perfect for radio batteries, Lithium Park Flyer batteries, plus single cell glow starter cells. 2 Year Warranty. Hobbico instruction manual accu-cycle plus. Get file exe I 4AC7C2FD-CEE4-4CE4-9846-A9 C Documents and Settings M M Local Settings Temp BIT106. Microsoft should continue to support older devices, certainly. Because it will auto dim and things start conflicting I think. Hobbico instruction manual accu-cycle plus Mirror Link #1.

BIll, let me get this straight in my mind here. You are looking for the mah value of the battery once you hook it up?
That's not how it works, and if you already know this, please accept my apology.
When you hook your battery up, all the charger knows is what the static battery voltage is. In order to give you a mah (miliamp-hour) value, you have to put a charge in the battery pack, and what you will get is an indication of what you put in. So, if you have a partially charged 1000 mah pack (or partially discharged, depending on if you are a pessimist or an optimist. :D ) which, say has a partial charge of 500 ma, well, it will take 500 ma to fill it up (that's not exactly true because the actual amount of charge, or the 'number of electrons that flow in the battery is measured differently, but you get the idea, I'm sure) so that's what the charger will show, what it took to fill the battery to capacity. And, of course, this may or may not fill the battery depending if you leave it on long enough, at your particular charge rate, to completely fill the pack.
What the green light is, I don't quite know, but normally, green is good. Leaving it on for a length of time may give you an indication of what was put in the battery pack.
Now, if you selected 'Four Cells' and your pack is a four cell pack, and if it is fully charged, the charger may be smart enough to measure that static voltage and decide that it is fully charged and go into trickle charge mode. That's the way most NiMH or NiCD chargers work. LiPo chargers to not trickle charge, that's dangerous.
I have an older Accucycle charger, but I don't recall what the LED's do when I hook up the battery other than that they flash when it is charging, I think. but the current measurement of flow into the battery pack is shown in the little view window. When discharging, once I push the discharge button (cycle button), it will begin to discharge the pack to a pre-determined point. When it reachs that point, it will stop discharging, show the amount of current drawn out, and begin charging, but will not show how much went in. It will show that the pack is fully charged when it is finished, I believe, by a green light. I will have to check to be sure, though.
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I bought my first AccuCycle Elite in 2004 and I chose it over other models because it had two independently-programmable outputs. Dual output chargers are old-hat today, but it was novel technology back then and I really liked the idea that I could charge a LiPo pack for a plane and the NiMH pack in my transmitter at the same time with the same charger.

But I quickly discovered another more important advantage to the AccuCycle Elite: It has a unique ability to charge NiMH packs at low -deltaV sensitivity settings without suffering the false peaks that plague other popular chargers. In a nutshell, a low -deltaV sensitivity setting means a low pack temperature at the end of a charge cycle and low temperatures mean longer pack life.

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That was particularly important to me because my favorite RC discipline involved building and flying slope planes made of EPP foam covered by layers of strapping tape and iron-on film. Samsung scx-4300 printer user manual. It’s a common practice when building that kind of plane to bury a NiMH receiver pack in the nose to help make CG without adding a bunch of parasitic weight, and those embedded packs are charged in-plane through a charging jack.

A disadvantage of that kind of construction is you have to cut a plane open if you need to replace the RX pack, and packs can go bad pretty quickly if they get hot when you charged them. To compound the problem, foam is essentially insulation, so any heat that is generated during a charge cycle is trapped. I had to cut open a couple of my planes after the packs died and that inspired me to study the science of charging NiMH cells with the goal of coming up with a charging method that wouldn’t ruin them.

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One answer is to trickle charge them at 0.1C, but that can take 10 hours or more per plane if the packs are discharged when you start. A faster solution is to use a peak-detect charger set to a 0.3 to 0.4C charge rate and 4mV -deltaV (peak detect) sensitivity setting, but many chargers either don’t have adjustable -deltaV settings or you can’t set ’em that low. Some charger manufacturers deliberately do that because low -deltaV settings can result in premature (false) peak detection which results in incomplete charge cycles, unhappy customers, and warranty returns.

The AccuCycle Elite doesn’t suffer from those problems, though. Its -deltaV sensitivity can be set as low as 3mV and it doesn’t suffer from false peak detection. I don’t actually understand how their NiMH charging algorithm differs from other chargers, but the Hobbico engineers got it right.

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That’s why I think the AccuCycle Elite is still one of the best chargers you can buy for charging NiMH packs: It works extremely well at low charge rates and -deltaV settings and that’s a claim few if any modern chargers can make. I’ve also used high-end chargers from AstroFlight, Great Planes, Hitec, Hyperion, iCharger, Schultz, and Sirius to charge NiMH packs and none of them worked as well as the the AccuCycle Elite. I have two of them now and they’re the only chargers I use to charge and maintain my NiMH packs.

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I typically set my AccuCycle Elites to 0.3 or 0.4C charge rate and 4mV -deltaV sensitivity when I’m charging embedded NiMH packs. If I need to hurry I’ll kick up the charge rate to 0.5C and drop the -deltaV sensitivity to 3mV and I still reach full charge without heating up the pack enough to concern me. I should add that the -deltaV sensitivity setting is listed as “Peak Sensitivity” in the AccuCycle Elite’s menu system.

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