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Article #14264Re: NiCd behavior
From: David Fiedler
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 04:15
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 04:15
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mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
>Full discharge for a 7.2-V NiCd is about 6 volts. Taking it below 6 volts
>can damage it by causing some of the cells to become reverse-charged.
What *he* said. I believe the target voltage for discharging is .9 to 1.0
volts per cell. Find the number of cells in any NiCd battery by dividing
by the NiCd cell voltage, 1.2. You don't want to go lower than 5.4 (better
luck next time :-).
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