[MadScott]

I greatly appreciate the input actofgod. My stand alone charger is very basic. I used one of the small RS project boxes as the base, 2 2/56 screws as the prongs that the car sits on and very simply connected a set of hobby charging leads to those screws, inside of the project box.

I have actually put the car on the charger with the pcb opened up and laying to the side so I've pretty much eliminated any shorting there. The button cells are placed in series properly, I don't know if you have purchased any recently but the narrow end now comes marked "+".

What seems to make the most sense to me is that there may be an issue of the charger being too much for the batteries' capacity. The 50mah setting that I was describing is the charge input capacity that I would wish to achieve. The charger could vary well be shooting to much through the batteries.

I will try some charging without the batteries in the car and see if that works. Any other thoughts or suggestions are appreciated. If nothing else, my charging platform also hooks up to a travel charger if you will which basically is a 4AA battery holder with hobby leads on it. Perhaps I can charge my triple cell with that. Thanks everyone for all help.