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Default What is the trick to replacing rechargeable batteries please?

"William Sommerwerck" wrote in
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Just to add, it's sometimes cheaper to buy a different make of
battery that may be on offer and rob it of its cells to fix another.


This is not generally a good idea. Replacing the bad cells in one
battery with new, good cells, is likely to cause cell reversal during
operation.


You also have OLD cells with lots of charge cycles mixed with new cells,and
the old cells will fail sooner.

You should generally replace all the cells.


Agreed.

It's also useful to have some way of measuring each cell's capacity
while discharging it, so you can roughly match the cells' capacities.



agreed.

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