On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:27:41AM -0400, Cory Papenfuss wrote: > >La Crosse charger highly recommended. > > > >I read the La Crosse delivers a more reliable charge at 500-700ma as it can > >do a better job of detecting the cut off point. I was having some flaky > >battery problems at 200ma which vanished when I upped the charge rate. > >700ma is still well below the safe charge limit. > > > Agreed. Charging at the low rate (200mAh) makes it difficult for > the La Crosse to detect the cut off voltage when charging high capacity > batteries.
Thanks for the tip. I had an Energiser 2500 that wouldn't charge on the low setting, but charged just fine on the higher setting. I only have a MAHA C401, so I don't have all the options of the LaCrosse, but just knowing that a faster charge was worth trying helped me.
