Evening guys! I have recently bought my first RIF a G&G CM16 SRXL and I bought an additional nuprol N-mag for it which refuses to feed! Do you guys have any recommendations for mags that work with this RIF?
Also I have two 9.6v 1600mah NiMH batteries and a nuprol compact intelligent charger with a charge current of 1.5a. How long Should these batteries take to charge? One of them has been on charge for nearly 12 1/2 hours and still isn’t full! Is this normal?
thanks in advance
RED VIKING
Hi and welcome. Yes, mags are a perennial problem. Workmate Eddy bought a G&G CM16 and I one each of (I think) five different brand of mags, just to see which would fit. I believe only two fitted and fed, and I had to take a file and a Dremel to the other three to get them to work. You might have to remove material, especially in the mag release cut out, and/or add some tape. Fun fact, the STANAG standard was never actually ratified and remains a draft. Sorry, i know that's not much help, just sympathising. Someone should be along in a minute with a recommendation.
The best place for that Nuprol charger is in a bin, before it burns your house down. We've had report after report about them failing, sometimes catastrophically. I wouldn't plug one in if I was gifted it. A 1600mAh battery taking a 1500mA current should charge in just over an hour, an hour and a half tops even with losses. Don't charge it for longer than that, and keep an eye - well, a hand - on the temperature.
What I'd suggest is that you don't spend any more on nimh batteries. They work, but it's old tech. Lithium based cells (lipo or life) can provide higher currents and are easier for chargers since they know what voltage to charge them up to. With nimh, the charger doesn't know, it has to look for the resistance of the cell spiking: if it misses that, then it'll just keep pumping charge in.
7.4V lipo, and an IMAX B6 charger, e.g. a SkyRC branded one is
the one way to go.
