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Article #16769Re: Wanted : Nicad Charger Plans
From: Paul Rubin
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:52
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:52
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Little known battery secret: recharging zinc carbons actually works well enough to be worthwhile if you recharge *before* deep discharging the cells. They won't hold the charge for a long time but for applications like a bike headlamp that you use every night, you can save some $$ this way.
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Newsgroups: sci.electronics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nntp.telebit.com!phr From: phr@telebit.com (Paul Rubin) Subject: Re: Wanted : Nicad Charger Plans In-Reply-To: agodwin@acorn.co.uk's message of 26 Jan 93 13:58:30 GMT Message-ID: <PHR.93Jan27215219@napa.telebit.com> Sender: news@telebit.com Nntp-Posting-Host: napa Organization: Telebit Corporation; Sunnyvale, CA, USA References: <C14yy9.Fyq@athena.cs.uga.edu> <21152@acorn.co.uk> <1juf3rINNlbd@rave.larc.nasa.gov> <21186@acorn.co.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 05:52:19 GMT Lines: 5