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Default Rechargeable Batteries

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 11:31:08 -0000, "Peter Crosland"
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The problem with, and always has been, with Ni-Cad cells is that they do
develope memory unless you discharge them fully and then recharge them.


They don't, and in domestic batteries never have. What they do
develop is voltage depression which is caused not by failing to
discharge them fully, that is irrelevant, but simply by consistently
overcharging them.
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