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In article <1991Jun16.041527.3366@netcom.COM> fiedler@netcom.COM (David Fiedler) writes:
]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 :-).

Better yet, don't discharge it at all. The most recent Gates application
notes show that there is NO appreciable memory effect in modern NiCads -
they ran a lot of experiments. Thus, there is NO REASON TO DISCHARGE NICADS!
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