Hey HobbyTalkers,

How do I store nickel cadmium batteries?

Of course that depends on how long they are going to sit right. Let say one week storage, one month storage, and six or more month storage [just for the heck of it].

I can’t find anything consistent form manufactures or other web searches.

Some say discharge to 0.9v per cell then add 6ah for 60 sec.

Others say race, discharge, rest for 12 hr, peak charge, store, cycle when you need them again.

And some say completely dead at zero degrees Celsius.

I’m lost…

I’m lost…
hrrmz ^^^ look at my name i may be able to help lol, ok nicds arent real picky just dont charge them till ya run em dow and when u carge them charge them full or nothing... so id charge em then let em sit, then when u want to use'em drain and charge again :wave:
hth,
mike:D

whell fozzy. ni-cads dont realy need to be stored with any charge in them. back when I used to race with ni-cads I would just drain them to zero and put em away. now ni-mh are a different story. are you abobsoulutely shure your talking about ni-cads nad not ni-mh's? because there is alot of things with ni-mh batteries that are different than ni-cads. ok whell first gen ni-mh (like 3000 mh and 3300) should be taken down to about .75 volts per cell. even tho I have taken mine down to .5 and below with no noticable drawbacks. now the newer gen ni-mh like 3600's and so fourth say that you shouldent take the pack below .90v per cell. these numbers are only for if you plan on storing your batteries for 1 week or less. but if you plan on storing them for extended periods of time I would put a little bit of charge on them. say 10 min or so.


HOPE THIS HELPS
Sean Scott

With what ni-cads we still have around we usally bring 'em down to about 5.40 for a 6 pack or 6.30 for a 7 pack and 7.20 for a 8 pack which comes to .90 per cell and if anything we never bring them down to zero for storage or down to zero for any reason except maybe in a long while while battery is heavily being cycled thru running the battery...

When we bring them out of storage of 3 or more days we will cycle the battery 2 or 3 times bringing it down to .90 per cell each cycle before the battery ever goes in the R/C due to having a very flat charge first and or second cycle out of storage...

The consensus seems to be put them up properly discharged [not charged or deep discharged].

Is that the right impression?