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Re: Best way to charge batteries

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Originally Posted by Fej View Post

With that in mind, should we bother bringing down the charge rate to 4A or 2A or should we leave it at 6A during the competition?
I try to keep the battery chargers set to less than 6A unless we're at a competition, then they're set to 6A. In my opinion, 6A is a bit "hot" for an 18 ampere-hour battery, but even with 6 batteries and chargers we come close to running out of charged batteries during eliminations.

I'm starting to think the "right" number of batteries and chargers is 8.