balance charger/discharger need help
 

i have a NIMH battery and it have

this type of connector
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/e...Picture010.jpg

and i just bought this charger
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/e...Picture013.jpg
with all these connectors
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/e...Picture012.jpg

could i use these clamps to charge the battery?
http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/e...Picture011.jpg

cause i tried it with a spare battery that i dont use anymore and the charger says its charging the battery but i am just asking if its safe to use these clamps for the battery

Yea you can do that... it's fine as long as the + and - don't touch and you don't screw up the prong inside the battery connector..

I'm sure someone in your community will have an extra small male tamiya connector.. even if it's just a cut-off you can hook the clamps up to the little bit of extra wiring on the connector.. it'll be better than hooking the clamps directly into the battery's connector

ok cool thanks bro

Did you get a cheap charger with the gun? I just took that and cut the end, soldered a deans on and BINGO! You can use the alligator clips but do it very carefully and in a safe place. I suggest connecting the negative, taping it with electrical tape then connect the posative. That way they cannot make contact and you can feel better about this rag-tag mashing of a connection.

Best solution is to install Dean's Ultra on your batteries and guns. They are incredibly better (enough to see a difference in ROF and duration), cheap and will solve your problems.

That's what I did before I upgraded to deans. Just make sure the connection is secure.

thanks guys i took the cheap charger i got and also took those clips and clip them on the cheap connector then connect them them to my battery works very well charge my battery in 25 min

Hope you're not charging that battery at 5.6 amps... from the looks of it that's a G&G 1400 9.6V stick... 5.6 amps will destroy that thing, you should be charging at 1.4 amps maximum

oh fuck me :s i did i didnt know i try looking up how to use that charger but on youtube all i got was a little help from RC planes and shit not really airsoft stuff and they all used 5.0 amps on that but then again they were using lipos well i just charged it once so i hope it didnt do much damage thanks for the heads up amos

I have the same charger, great charger by the way. The best suggestion i can make on charging values for NiMH batteries is, Take your battery capacity, in your case 1400Mah and devide that by 1000. example 1400/1000=1.4 , that is the maximum amperage you can charge that battery at. This formula can be used for nimh and nicad packs of some decent quality. I would also give the manual it came with a good reading as it does give you lots of info on the charger and what it is capable of doing charging/discharging etc. Check out the discharging feature on the charger. It helps to keep your packs in Peak shape, even Nimh have some memory to them so its best to discharge it fully before every charge to get the best performance from your battery. hope this helps.

There's plenty of online calculators for charging times and current for different types of battery. Google it up.

Also, even LiPos, you shouldn't charge at 5A, unless it's a 5000mAh battery. You should charge at 1C max.

ight thanks bros ill set it to 1.4 amps and discharge the mofo when i need to charge the mofo :D