Folks:
I own the BC-700 and many Eneloop AA and AAA. All works well. However, when visiting my friend, I noticed an older AM/FM radio he leaves running in his office. He said he uses rechargeable batteries to power this older radio. I noticed he had Kodak 1.2V Ni-MH with a dumb charger. I asked him if I could borrow a set of batteries as I wanted to see if my La Crosse could increase the capacity of the batteries, since they weren't being charged with a smart charger.
I put two in; one under "Test" and one under 'refresh". I thought I could use both settings to see if the refresh could breath more life into these batteries by comparing the Test results to the Refresh. I assumed refresh would cycle until the battery couldn't hold more.
After 2 days both finished. I got 1451 and 1478 mAh out of both and both at 1.38v. Here is where it goes strange. I wanted to run a few more refresh cycles on both to see if the mAh increases. Each time I run them in Test or Refresh, the charger chargest them to about 1.42v (which is an increase) and then goes to the FULL stage or stop. La Crosse device doesn't discharge and recharge, over and over. Just charges and stops. I don't know why.
I thought my device might have gone bad so I put a AAA and AA eneloop in under refresh and it charged them both and is now discharging them. So its working fine there.
I suppose my question is does this type of thing happen if I have a bad or failing battery? Could it be these Kodak batteries are too old of a Ni-MH battery for the La Crosse to properly refresh?
Thanks!
TKH
I own the BC-700 and many Eneloop AA and AAA. All works well. However, when visiting my friend, I noticed an older AM/FM radio he leaves running in his office. He said he uses rechargeable batteries to power this older radio. I noticed he had Kodak 1.2V Ni-MH with a dumb charger. I asked him if I could borrow a set of batteries as I wanted to see if my La Crosse could increase the capacity of the batteries, since they weren't being charged with a smart charger.
I put two in; one under "Test" and one under 'refresh". I thought I could use both settings to see if the refresh could breath more life into these batteries by comparing the Test results to the Refresh. I assumed refresh would cycle until the battery couldn't hold more.
After 2 days both finished. I got 1451 and 1478 mAh out of both and both at 1.38v. Here is where it goes strange. I wanted to run a few more refresh cycles on both to see if the mAh increases. Each time I run them in Test or Refresh, the charger chargest them to about 1.42v (which is an increase) and then goes to the FULL stage or stop. La Crosse device doesn't discharge and recharge, over and over. Just charges and stops. I don't know why.
I thought my device might have gone bad so I put a AAA and AA eneloop in under refresh and it charged them both and is now discharging them. So its working fine there.
I suppose my question is does this type of thing happen if I have a bad or failing battery? Could it be these Kodak batteries are too old of a Ni-MH battery for the La Crosse to properly refresh?
Thanks!
TKH