Yes. You have to actually discharge the battery to measure its capacity, obviously.
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Get a Triton battery charger (or a TritonII), set it to discharge at whatever rate you want, and it'll discharge the battery until it reaches X volts. I think 1.0V/cell is considered "dead" for NiMH, though it may be 0.8V, I don't remember.
It'll record how many mAh your battery has.
It also costs around $100. :Q
It's a damn capable charger though. The only thing I don't like is that it can't charge multiple individual cells. By that I mean this:
While it can charge several individual cells at a time, it does so when they're arranged in series: the entire collection is charged as a single battery, so each cell doesn't receive individual treatment from the charger. For that, you'd need a charger with independent charging circuits. I've got this Ansmann charger on the way. With that, I should be able to deliver a good charge to damn near any battery in existence.
Originally posted by: So
Originally posted by: Jeff7
Get a Triton battery charger (or a TritonII), set it to discharge at whatever rate you want, and it'll discharge the battery until it reaches X volts. I think 1.0V/cell is considered "dead" for NiMH, though it may be 0.8V, I don't remember.
It'll record how many mAh your battery has.
It also costs around $100. :Q
It's a damn capable charger though. The only thing I don't like is that it can't charge multiple individual cells. By that I mean this:
While it can charge several individual cells at a time, it does so when they're arranged in series: the entire collection is charged as a single battery, so each cell doesn't receive individual treatment from the charger. For that, you'd need a charger with independent charging circuits. I've got this Ansmann charger on the way. With that, I should be able to deliver a good charge to damn near any battery in existence.
Why in gods name would you spend so much to charge batteries!?!?!
That's the sort of thing which worries me these days - potentially flammable batteries in a culture of "Make it as cheap as possible. Cut corners when possible." Li-ion/poly batteries, as I understand it, are things where you really don't want to follow that philosophy. Anything that can create a fire is something that you don't want to go cheap on.
Get a Triton battery charger (or a TritonII), set it to discharge at whatever rate you want, and it'll discharge the battery until it reaches X volts. I think 1.0V/cell is considered "dead" for NiMH, though it may be 0.8V, I don't remember.
It'll record how many mAh your battery has.
It also costs around $100. :Q
It's a damn capable charger though. The only thing I don't like is that it can't charge multiple individual cells. By that I mean this:
While it can charge several individual cells at a time, it does so when they're arranged in series: the entire collection is charged as a single battery, so each cell doesn't receive individual treatment from the charger. For that, you'd need a charger with independent charging circuits. I've got this Ansmann charger on the way. With that, I should be able to deliver a good charge to damn near any battery in existence.
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