With all the fancy talk about Li-Pos and such, surprisingly there are still many stick pack batteries on the market, and these stick packs still use Ni-Cds or Ni-MH cells. Unlike Li-Pos, Ni-Cd/Ni-MH cells should be discharged at the end of the day to keep them from "memory effect"—a trait that cuts your runtime and power output drastically. For those of you who rock the Nickels, Much More Racing offers their new Cell Conditioner auto-cut / dead short discharger.

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