Depends what you mean by 'damage' Arguably, most chargers do not quite get
it right, and either cook or take forever to charge the cells. I personally
find that all rechargeable, and I'm not including the so called
rechargeable alkaline here, are not as reliable as the manufacturers
suggest. Ni cads are low in capacity and go short, the ones you mention are
better but still suffer self discharge and wildly variable life and charge
potential in my experience. Only the lead acid sealed sort seem at all
reliable and the lithium, get so hot you need oven gloves to use them.

Brian

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"john gurney" wrote in message
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Just bought a Duracell battery charger yesterday for rechargeable AA and
AAA batteries. (model no CEF24UK)

The first disappointment was that it only charges *two* AA or two AAA at a
time. (usually chargers of this size charge four batteries at a time).

When I got home it specifically says in the instructions only to charge
Ni-mh batteries, and not any others.

So I rang the free phone number and said I've got a lot of the older Ni-Cd
batteries (like you have...right?) and would it do any damage to the
batteries or the charger to charge them?

Could I get a straight answer, could I hell.

I was very persistant, but she would not answer in a straight way. When I
asked if I could be transferred to a technical department, she said, "we
have 'all' the information".

All you staring blankly out of the window, waiting for something to
happen...
It's a free phone number...... 0800716434

The question I kept repeating was, will any damage be done to either the
charger or to the older ni-cd batteries, if charged up in this charger?

If you can get a straight answer from this women you're a better man than
I.