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Article #14327Re: NiCd behavior
From: Pete Holsberg
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 17:56
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 1991 17:56
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In article <1991Jun17.092406.11386@neon.Stanford.EDU> zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes: =1 hour to charge a battery, thats not a fast charge :-) I do 15-20 minute =charges. (Oh course, that is for quick discharge NiCd's.) = =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. = =The above is just my personal experience. I am not saying that you =should do quick charges, or that NiCd's don't have memory. How do you accomplish discharging them completely? Pete -- Prof. Peter J. Holsberg Mercer County Community College Voice: 609-586-4800 Engineering Technology, Computers and Math FAX: 609-586-6944 1200 Old Trenton Road, Trenton, NJ 08690 Internet: pjh@mccc.edu TCF 92 - April ??-??, 1992
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!think.com!spool.mu.edu!news.cs.indiana.edu!att!princeton!njsmu!mccc!pjh From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: NiCd behavior Message-ID: <1991Jun18.175605.12524@mccc.edu> Date: 18 Jun 91 17:56:05 GMT References: <6666@qip.UUCP> <1991Jun16.215158.27005@athena.cs.uga.edu> <1991Jun17.092406.11386@neon.Stanford.EDU> Organization: The College On The Other Side Of Route One Lines: 20