My battery is making me nervous? Help?

[Yannik]

I am charging my Futaba: 9.6 V, 700mAh Nicad Battery on my Onyx 220 charger. I am kinda nervous because I'll explain. At initial setting I put the battery to charge at Chg current: 0.1A the capacity: I put 700Mah. I put the timer off and trickle to auto mode. peak 8. Now the only thing I don't get is the display is showing In volt: 11.92Vi and 11.18Vo............my battery is a 9.6V I don't get........should I stop? its been charging only 2-3 hrs at slow amp.

 

[Deluge]

That's DC voltage. Basically, it's displaying voltage that's coming from the power source. Your battery is fine.

 

[Yannik]

That's DC voltage. Basically, it's displaying voltage that's coming from the power source. Your battery is fine.

Ouffffffffffffffffffff Thank you! I was almost sure I was ruinning my battery! i didn't stop it though. Can you actually stop or pause the charger when charging a battery, let say I put a wrong capacity?

 

[Deluge]

You can either push start to stop the process, or just unplug the battery.

 

[REVOlutionary Rampage]

If your battery is too hot to touch. Or making popping or sizzling noises. Then, I would shut it off immediately. This could ruin or explode your battery.

 

[Yannik]

The charger just started to scream bip bip and the display said "Circuit error". I don't know why it did that! Here are the setting I put for my Futaba NICd 9.6V, 700MaH:

NICd

capacity: 700MaH

Current: 0.1A

S_timer: 0 (off)

Peak: 8mv/c

Trickle: I put it on "auto"

* Do you have an idea on what could of cause this error message?? I really don't know what to do with the battery. One thing I know, the battery wasn't warm when that error occured. I really want to find out what I did wrong or what happened?

Thanks

 

[Deluge]

Even if you turn the timer off, the Onyx will still error out at 300+ minutes. Try bumping up the current to 0.7A.

 

[Yannik]

When I put 0.7A the S_Timer goes to 72 min. Should I put it to 0Min = off??

 

[Deluge]

I'd leave it on. At 0.7A the battery should be charged within an hour, anyway.

 

[Yannik]

Ok I will try that and it should stop before or at 72 min. Thanks, I appreciate a lot!

 

[Deluge]

Anytime, dude.