Initial Battery Maintenance for Your New Nickel Metal Hydride Battery Recells or Packs

Reminder-Nickel Metal Hydride

We do not build and store excess battery packs for months or longer at a time.

• Ø      Because your battery packs are specialty builds and built to order:

  • The first three to five charge – discharge cycles of your new Ni-MH battery inserts are very important to building the muscle / character of the pack (s).  Let them COOL and allow them to COOL between charges!  DO NOT charge when the cells are COLD.

·  Detail: http://www.rathboneenergy.com/articles/articles_battery.htm

• ·  In an ideal world:

  • You should run your new Ni-MH battery recell through three to five full charge discharge cycles as you use the battery packs to build the character of the pack.

  • o       This will keep the new battery (s) maintained as well as possible.

  • o       Heat is particularly bad on nickel metal hydride cells as well as over discharging.

    •         What NOT to do:

      • Constant drain of the pack to discharge overheats the battery cells, 15 on-15 off.

      • §        Many well intended shooters, wanting to discharge the battery properly, and not having a more sophisticated charger or, an analyzer such as PAG or Cadex, at some point decide to leave the camera powered ON.  Then they forget about the camera and battery.  DO NOT DO THIS!

      • §        If you drain the battery below .9 volts per cell you may damage the cells.  Constant drain also creates additional heat.

      • §        If you drain the battery below approximately .7 volts per cell your charger may NOT recognize the battery and you must send it back to us.  If the pack has not been forced into a reverse discharge we can place a direct charge on the battery pack for a few minutes thus bringing the battery pack up to a voltage that any charger will recognize.

At Rathbone Energy, Inc., we are constantly looking for ways to improve the quality of our products and at the same time reduce the amount of waste produced.  These products were packed in:

q A new box (please reuse)                  q A used box

q With Non-CFC Recyclable Polystyrene Peanuts (Please Reuse)

q With Bio-degradable Cornstarch Peanuts

q Recycles or Shredded Paper

Thank you for your business.

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Last Updated:Thursday, April 23, 2009 09:02:07 AM