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(Message started by: Baw_Flinger on May 24^th, 2006, 10:48am)

Title: My hobby and car dont mix
Post by Baw_Flinger on May 24^th, 2006, 10:48am

This is for anyone who has a hobby that involves charging NiCad battery packs from a car battery. I play a game called airsoft (similar to paintball) that uses electric BB guns that run to the same type of batteries as remote controled cars. This weekend I was at an event and my spare car battery I use to charge up my packs ran out of juice. So I decided to hook my little charger up to the scorp and ran a couple of charges out of it. Now, these packs are quite small (1100mah 8.4v- 9.6v 3300mah) and rapid charge in under 20 mins. When it came to leave the event on the Sunday afternoon, I had a seriously fun 2-3 mins of trying to get the scorp to start. When I did, it was fine after a run and has had no problems over the last 3 days at all. This takes it back to the whole issue of needing a tip top battery for the car to run. I didnt use that much out of it but it was enough to give me some serious jip and just as well I didnt do any more charging as it would have needed a set of jump leads to get me going. So, anybody out there that uses remote controled cars or nicad packs, dont hook a charger up to yur scorp!!

Title: Re: My hobby and car dont mix
Post by Octavian_P on May 24^th, 2006, 2:48pm

I also do "wierd" stuff with the scorp's electricity, but i keep the engine on to be on the safe side, or i'm doing it on trip to destinaton ;)

Greatest consumer i had it was a 600 W 220V inverter (hooked up to a PC) + one huge car amplifier (2x500 W) + a small power amplifier (4x40W)......+ TFT screen....+ a lot more gizmos...... a week after this "experiment" the car battery packed up without any other signs.....could it be a coincidence ::)

I also charge batteries in the car for the the camera ;)

Title: Re: My hobby and car dont mix
Post by Baw_Flinger on May 24^th, 2006, 3:06pm

Think I will get a cig lighter adapter for it and run the car while charging (if I am ever stuck again). I thought about running the car at the time, but did not know if the 14.5v going in to the battery fron the alternator would have damaged my rather expensive charger ::). Never had this problem before on any of my cars, even took the battery out one time (rover 416) to run charges through out the day without any bother.

Title: Re: My hobby and car dont mix
Post by Highlander on May 24^th, 2006, 5:02pm

You could wire up a second battery in the boot and charge it through the towbar dual electrics if you have them