Rooz wrote:what do you mean by "measured" by the MH-C9000 ? sorry i have no idea what that means....i'm pretty basic with this sort of stuff. lol
To 'measure' the discharge rate, put the batteries into your MH-C9000 after 1 or 2 months of not being used, and charge them. The LCD will show how much capacity each battery took. After 1 month, they should only take a few minutes to charge, as they should still be 90% full. The screen will cycle through each slot tell you how much energy you added to each battery.
Rooz wrote:what i meant was that i had 2 sets of batteries in my pack, 1 set of eneloops and 1 set of imedions. they were fully charged using the MHC9000 and sitting in my pack for a couple of months. when i put them in my strobes, the eneloops were fine and operated as normal, (they are still in there), but the imedions ran out of charge after only 30 minutes. once they were recharged they worked fine. this is not the first time this has happened either.
I suspect one of the batteries may be a dud, if this is the case, the MH-C9000 will tell you which one, as one of the batteries will take almost a full charge, and the others only a small amount of charge. As the strobe needs the full voltage from all 4 batteries, it is stopping when one battery is dead and the other 3 are 90% full.
Rooz wrote:i'm positive that they were fully charged cos my used batteries get put into a case with a red elastic band on it and my fully charged ones go in a case with a green elastic band on it to make sure i dont get confused.
Your IMEDIONs should outperform your eneloops, as they do for other users. Please try the test above, and we'll try to identify the issue, and replace the dud battery for you under warranty.
Cheers
Jeff