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Just have a quick question about conditioning IMPRES batteries (specifically xts series HNN9032A). Is it safe to run these through a conditioner as you can regular NiCad batteries? I have a couple that are getting older. The only analyzer/conditioner that I have access to is a W&W IIIa. Thanks.

Jay wrote:Just have a quick question about conditioning IMPRES batteries (specifically xts series HNN9032A). Is it safe to run these through a conditioner as you can regular NiCad batteries? I have a couple that are getting older. The only analyzer/conditioner that I have access to is a W&W IIIa. Thanks.

Are you using them with an Impres charger? If so, there's no need to condition them. Otherwise, you won't hurt them running them through a conditioner.

I am using an impres charger, unfortunately one without a display.

That's fine, the charger will still automatically condition the battery for you.

You can also force a conditioning by taking the battery out of the charger and putting it back in within 5 seconds. There's no need to do this for Li-Ion batteries, from everything I've read they do not benefit from conditioning and it seems the conditioning cycle on the Impres charger is really more of a calibration than a conditioning

escomm wrote:You can also force a conditioning by taking the battery out of the charger and putting it back in within 5 seconds. There's no need to do this for Li-Ion batteries, from everything I've read they do not benefit from conditioning and it seems the conditioning cycle on the Impres charger is really more of a calibration than a conditioning

I have always wondered about Li-Ion and Impres. Every once and a while it takes a nicely charged NNTN6034A into recon and you might as well leave on vacation.....

Marshall

Same thing with my ML910, it wants to calibrate the battery every 6 weeks or so, the cycle takes about 9 hours and it's a pain if I don't start it at night before knocking out. I think it's mostly so the fuel gauge is accurate

escomm wrote:You can also force a conditioning by taking the battery out of the charger and putting it back in within 5 seconds.

The corollary to this is you can do the same thing to force a battery OUT of a conditioning cycle, and have it do a rapid charge only. Obviously this won't recalibrate or recondition the battery, but under normal circumstances doing this once in a while when you really gotta have a charged battery pronto won't hurt anything.

For those running Impres batteries - have you seen a marked improvement in overall life of the batts? Worth the $20+ per battery for the function?