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Article #14306Re: NiCd behavior
From: Ming MAR
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 00:35
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 00:35
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In article <1991Jun17.092406.11386@neon.Stanford.EDU> zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes: > Truthfully, I abuse my NiCd's. I always charge them in 15 > minutes, and I even charge them when they're hot. I have never > had a problem with NiCd memory. I do try to discharge them > completely, but I don't go to the extreme of hooking resistors or > light bulbs to them. Well, I hooked 'em up to light bulbs. I though I was doing them a favor, but they were dying like flies. What happened was I had discharged them to the point where they had _reverse polarities_. I later found out that reversing polarities destroys them. Now, I no longer try to discharge them completely before recharging.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!quiche!mingmar From: mingmar@cs.mcgill.ca (Ming MAR) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: NiCd behavior Message-ID: <1991Jun18.003503.28063@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: 18 Jun 91 00:35:03 GMT References: <6666@qip.UUCP> <1991Jun16.215158.27005@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jun17.092406.11386@neon.Stanford.EDU> Sender: news@cs.mcgill.ca (Netnews Administrator) Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Lines: 14