hi Vasile,

> Hi Stef,
>
>I'm a little agree with this "no name" piclister. Without any question
>dV/dT it's a common used methode. However there are situation when the
>small dV can't be sensed well. Even the battery is complete charged,
>the charger seen as is not, hence the situation of overcharging. maybe
>you saw this at least once.
>  
>
No I've never seen this, when a battery is full,
and I put it in the charger again, it stops within a few seconds.

>Also, maybe you've noticed, the quick charger is very good for
>batteries which are also fast discharged. If you're trying to use a 10
>minutes charged 1Ah battery with 100mA/10 hours will never works in
>the last 3...4 hours. But if you'll "regenerate' the battery with very
>slow charge-discharge 2...3 cycles it looks like the battery is ok
>(which is not, only for the first maybe second next discharging
>cycle).
>
>Talking from the chemistry inside the battery , there is no much
>difference between fast reflex charging and standard low time
>charge-discharge. The only benefit of a reflex charge I saw, it's the
>"feeling" of  regeneration (which is just an impression, if it's
>followed by complete measurements).
>
No it's not a feeling (at least for NiCd), I really measured capacities 
after loading !!
And besides Reflex charging, overcomes the memory effect and can even 
repair totally damaged batteries !

> But I didn't experiment with
>reflex charger too much. Fortunately I don't want to repeat this
>experience on more than 100 batteries and 5 different producers.
>  
>
I don't want either,
but with those new NiMh batteries, I hate that discharge when they are 
lying around.
So I really want to find a good answer to that,
and unfortunatly I didn't find the answer yet.

So if someone knows how to prevent discharging (not the refrigirator 
solution),
I would be much obliged ;-)

cheers,
Stef

>  
>
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