8.4 v charger?

[eugenebrooks]

Originally Posted by Alan Anderson

The charger we received in the kit has no way of letting you know that the battery has been charged. I'm not sure it even checks -- we left a prior year's backup battery plugged into it over the weekend, and it was very hot when we got back to it. That battery seems not to hold a charge very well any more...

I am invoking justified paranoia and directing that our team not use this year's backup battery charger unless we find reliable documentation that it indeed will not overcharge the batteries.

Most of the chargers for the NiCd battery supplied in the kit over the past several years will overheat the battery if you leave it on the charger overnight. If you want to do that, you need to use a charger that terminates the charge properly. Unfortunately, use of the KOP charger is required by the rules in the pits. We simply do not leave the backup battery on the charger overnight. As soon as the battery starts to get warm it is fully charged and you need to take it off the charger.

Eugene