Tekin BC100L Charger

[rc10t3&tc3]

Hello out there, I've been in & out of RC for about 10 years. Many years ago I purchased a Tekin BC100L Peak Charger. At the time it was supposed to be a pretty good charger & It still works pretty well. I have recently been getting back into the hobby & have thought about whether I should upgrade to a newer charger that will handle NIMH 3000 Batteries. Does anyone know anything about my current charger & whether or not it will handle NIMH. I have scoured the Tekin website & can't even find an e-mail address to send them a question about this. I will just keep this charger if I can charge NIMH with it. Thanks for any posts. RP

[FilthyPierre]

Your Tekin will be able to charge MH batteries, but you will have to monitor them and remove them from charge when they get warm. MH batteries don't have a voltage drop when they get to full charge like NiCd's do (the "peak"), so you can't start a charge and then walk away. The batteries won't peak, so the charger will just keep on pumpin'. I'm not sure how NiMH chargers detect a full charge, but check out the R/C Battery Clinic (http://gnv.fdt.net/~redscho/) - there's heaps of info there about NiCd's and MH batteries.