On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 16:45:05 -0000, "Graham" wrote:

|
| I've seen advertised charges that will recharge ordinary non-rechargeable
| batteries. Are these any good ?
|
|I used to make chargers that recharged ordinary batteries when I was
|a kid, they wern't all that successful as I remember, but the technique is
|called "dirty DC".
|
|Googling that term seems to be useless, as an AC/DC tribute band
|uses the same name!
|
|If you are interested, Googling
| "dirty DC" "zinc carbon"
|will give you the right info.

Google Advanced Search will do a better job.
delete all hits with "Tribute" or "band".
Lots more ways you can limit the search.

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