Fast chargers are fine, as long as they terminate the charge properly by
detecting max voltage, a voltage peak, or temperature rise.  The one I
have does none of the above, so if you drop in a fully charged pack it
will happily cook it to death.  When I finish with it it will be safe for
NiMH and NiCad.  I was going to sell it, but my son's making noinse again
about getting his Tech license, so I've offered it to him as a carrot if
he gets licensed.

Dale
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Jim wrote:

> I've got an FT-470 too, but it died some
> years back after it got a little wet - not
> soaked, but a little wet from rain.
>
> I can't reset it and get the micro to
> come back and remain sane. It will reset,
> but, will lock-up shortly and then freeze.
>
> I even tried removing the Lithium coin cell
> to 'clear' any values held somewhere for
> whatever purpose - no luck yet ...
>
> I always used the slow charger on that radio's
> batts - knowing what fast-chargers do to batts!

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