On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:12:43 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 09:51:45 GMT, Gunner Asch
wrote:

Anyone got a "training collar" that would be interesting in selling
it?

Ive a lady friend with a problem dog, and this is the last resort
before putting the dog down.

The dog is great around familiar people, but tends to nut roll around
strangers..no one bitten yet..but scared the hell out of a few people.
Overly protective, aggressive.

She is worried..(quite rightly) about it biting someone and while the
muzzle Ive provided her is a stop gap measure, the time has come to
put a collar on the sob and stun his ass the moment he starts being
aggressive. The alternative is killing the dog, and as its her best
friend..shrug

Ive got an older Innotek remote setup, but the collar receiver is a
sealed unit and the rechargable battery has died. Im told by others
that its a potted unit (filled with silicone) and is impossible to
replace the battery. Ive got an email into the manufactures
support..and will call..and as a last resort, will use a slitting saw
on the case and pop it open and see what I can do...but..shrug. I
bought this unit about 15yrs ago from a buddy who was upgrading to a
collar with a longer range, used it for a couple days on a dog who
used to bolt whenever he was outside..which cured him very
quickly..then put it away and just now dug it out to find the battery
is toast.

The lady is looking to purchase another one if this one cannot be
fixed..but she is, like everyone else..not very well off.

Thanks

Gunner

Any idea what kind of battery? It's probably Ni-Cd, but what size
and how many cells? Even if you can't duplicate it, you can
certainly duplicate the voltage if you know the cell count. See
http://dkc3.digikey.com/PDF/T053/1499.pdf
for some possibilities.

Surgery on RTV (silicone) isn't too hard with an exacto knife,
Dremel, and sometimes a hot soldering iron. Lemme know if you'd
like a hand with this project, pro-bono of course. I have 2-part RTV
on hand for repotting.

The wall wart that is the charger..is 12vts dc, 100 ma.

The receiver unit is a monolithic block about 1.25 x 1.75, just
looking at it..and contains the coded receiver, battery and high
voltage generator. I can just bearly make out where the join was..or
should be..so thats where Ill make the slice using a .07 saw blade in
the mill.
Given its age..Im betting its a nicad pack..very small one

Ive got GE potting compound, though no idea if its any good anymore
...chuckle..its been a while since Ive used it.

Thanks for the offer, I may take you up on it.

Gunner

"Pax Americana is a philosophy. Hardly an empire.
Making sure other people play nice and dont kill each other (and us)
off in job lots is hardly empire building, particularly when you give
them self determination under "play nice" rules.

Think of it as having your older brother knock the **** out of you
for torturing the cat." Gunner