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Keven:
That's one way of doing it (discharge fully before charging) and exactly what you should do if you don't carry a spare alkaline set. However, since NiCad's have a life of roughly 500 charge/discharge cycles, if you do have the spare alkaline sets I recommend taking off with a partly charged unit. What I do is check the unit the night before flight to see if there's any indication of a low battery (my Icom IC-A3 unit has a low-battery indicator); if it's low I discharge fully and recharge overnight, otherwise I fly as-is, knowing that the alkaline set has several times the endurance of the fully-charged NiCad's.
Ernie
Last edited by Ernie Martin : 01-26-03 at 12:46 PM.
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