Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:34:44 -0800, "William Sommerwerck"
wrote:

The actual problem was not an intermittent switch. It was the last thing I'd
have expected -- one of the welds on the battery pack had come loose!

It happens. Spot welding takes practice.

Without turning this into a megillah... Any suggestions on repairing it
without damaging the cell? I don't have welding equipment. I do have an
EDSYN pencil iron, and a 100W RadioShack gun.

....

Very last resort is to just slop some epoxy on the flat wire and
battery terminal, and hope that it holds.


There is a conductive epoxy that can be used to fix this sort of thing...

John :-#)#

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