My posts are delayed as always, but when this does get through to the list: I have a charger from Radio Shack (The Source in Canada) that discharges batteries first (called "conditioning"), then charges quickly. Some older NiCads that I have are charged in very few minutes, showing how much their capacity has declined with age. GaryJ Craig Jungers wrote: > I think an ideal battery charger would first discharge the battery (or > batteries) almost completely (under controlled load) before starting the > charging cycle. Ham radio operators have designed several such chargers > (many of them back in the NiCad days) and those designs should be out there > somewhere. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Dec 06 2007 - 04:15:52 PST
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