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| Don't do this. First off, you won't get more current, nicads already can deliver gobs of current, enough to be dangerous. You want more amp-hours, not more instantaneous amperage. Secondly you will have problems with cells charging each other. I (...) (29 years ago, 6-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) Yes. My problem is that my motors draw somewhere around 2 amps average, and the AA pack I have is rated at 600mAh. This isn't much fun, I'm tempted to leave the thing plugged in instead of charging it every few minutes! It's really not tooo (...) (29 years ago, 7-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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| (...) We've had a debate on this issue a couple of times on the rec.models.rc.air newsgroup a couple times recently (check out www.dejanews.com) and the consensus seemed to be that parallel packs should not be a problem. (...) You should definitely (...) (29 years ago, 7-May-96, to lugnet.robotics.handyboard)
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