Newshound wrote:
One of my Ryobi 14.4 packs is dying. It has 12 NiCad sub-Cs spot welded. Any
tips, hints, warnings for replacing with tagged cells? This pack has a third
wire coming off a chip / temperature sensor? on the first cell.

If you've got a meter you will probably find just one or two of the
cells have gone s/c. Did a complete rebuild job on a hitachi battery
pack and was fine for light drilling work but as soon as you started to
apply more of a load the soldered battery connections melted! Remade
the connections twice (I'm an electronic eng. so I know how to solder
before anybody throws that in) then threw the battery pack in the bin!
- would have been a good repair if I could have got them welded somehow.