Test 003 - Renaissance Charger on Blackberry - Lithium Ion - 3.7v

Well, after about 1 week struggling with the Blackberry Battery, I managed to get a simple setup to recharge them. The problem was to make a proper contact. I used my breadboard and bent a few wires to get a good contact.

Charger: RC-1AU-120
Charge Setting: 1

Battery type: Blackberry battery, Lithium-ion, BAT-06860-001, --- mAh
ID: BB-0001
Voltage: 3.7v
Battery State: Discared old batteries, 2.57v.

Charge Cycle 1
Starting time: July 27 - 17:00
Starting Voltage: 2.57v

End Time: July 27 - not available.
Ending Voltage: 4.28v

Total charge time: 5h00

Test 003 - Renaissance Charger on Radio Shack 3.6v pack(3)

This battery pack was thrown away at work in the battery recycling bin. Probably a pack(3) for a phone or remote control car.

Charger: RC-1AU-120
Charge Setting: 1

Battery type: Ni-Mh - 350 mAh
ID: RS3.6-01
Voltage: 3.6v
Battery State: Old batteries, 1.98v.

Charge Cycle 1
Starting time: July 12 - 17:30
Starting Voltage: 1.98v

End Time: July 12 - 22:30
Ending Voltage: 4.18v

Total charge time: 5h
Total Discharge time: TBD

Test 002 - Renaissance Charger on 4 x AA - 1.2v each

Charging batteries that seems to be charged, but don't work well in camera. They are 5 years old AA batteries.

Charger: RC-1AU-120
Charge Setting: 2

Battery type: Ni-Mh - 2300 mAh
ID: AA-01, AA-02, AA-03, AA-04
Voltage: 4 x 1.2v
Battery State: 5 years old batteries, giving poor performances.

Charge-Discharge Cycle 1
Starting time: July 12 - 11:15
Starting Voltage: 1.25v, 1.25v, 1.21v, 1.26v

End Time: July 12 - 16:15
Ending Voltage: 1.38v, 1.38v, 1.37v, 1.38v

Total charge time: 5h

Total Discharge time: 14h
Discharged Voltage: 1.05v, 1.19v, 0.02v, 1.21v

Charge-Discharge Cycle 2
Starting time: July 22 - 09:20
Starting Voltage: 1.05v, 1.19v, 0.02v, 1.21v (Note, 3rd battery might be dead, or completely empty?)

End Time: Between 1:30 and 3:30
Ending Voltage: 1.37v, 1.37v, 1.37v, 1.37v (Note, 3rd battery still good to go, but was totally empty.)

Total charge time: Between 4h10 and 6h10

Total Discharge time: TBD
Discharged Voltage: TBD

Note: These batteries show very poor quality on the camera battery meter.

Test 001 - Renaissance Charger on 9V battery

This is the first test I will do with the Renaissance Charger.

Charger: RC-1AU-120
Charge Setting: 1

Battery type: Ni-MH - 140mAh
ID: 9V-01
Voltage: 9v
State: Good Condition

Charge-Discharge Cycle 1
Starting time: July 11 - 17:45
Starting Voltage: 4v

End Time: July 12 - 8:45
Ending Voltage: 9.55v

Total charge time: 15h

Total discharge time: Unknown, didn't keep track for this case.
Discharged Voltage: 6.55v
(Note: Voltage still going up 2h30 after been removed from the charge. Is this normal behavior?)

Charge-Discharge Cycle 2
Starting time: July 22 - 19:15
Starting Voltage: 6.55v

End Time: July 23 - 08:15
Ending Voltage: 8.5v (still rising slowly even unplugged)

Total charge time: 13h

Total discharge time: TBD
Discharged Voltage: TBD

Renaissance Charger by Energenx

Greetings everyone!

I decided to dedicate another blog to experimentations with the Renaissance Charger.

I received the RC-1AU-120 this afternoon.
This charger, to my great surprise can do lead acid battery as well as what I expected from it, the NI-MH and Ni-CD, ranging from 1.5v to 24v.

I'll post the results here with various battery types.

For future reference: The price of the unit was $350.00 USD and the cost for custom was too much for my taste: $47.14CAD

Renaissance Charger Website: http://www.r-charge.com/products.html