Originally Posted by
Ziemas
Keep in mind that the LaCrosse charger can only charge batteries up to 3000mah, any larger capacity and you are out of luck. The Maha MH-C9000 can charge up to 20,000mah, making them compatible with future high capacity batteries. The highest capacity AA currently being sold is 2900mah.
This was written on Steve's Digicam website. Anybody else agree this is how it works? Isn't this a firmware limitation to protect from overcharging batteries that the charger is unable to detect the drop in voltage as the cell becomes fully charged. I found this on another website.
http://www.stevesforums.com/forums/v...95&forum_id=51
"Posted: Wed Apr 20th, 2005 02:00 pm
Batteries over 3000mA simply won't get a full charge at the higher current charge rate. I think they will eventually get fully charged, slowly, as the charger trickle charges when they are sitting in the charger.
If you wanted, you could just unplug the charger and plug it back in (or possibly re-insert the cells) which would reset the charger. The cells would then charge at the higher current until they were full the rest of the way.
The limit has to do with a safety timer that's built into the charger. The only problem with the 'reset' method is that it will also reset all the data on the LCD displays so you will loose any cumulative charging data for that charge on the cells.
Hope I'm making sense!