On Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:35:24 -0700, William Sommerwerck wrote:

That must be a sophisticated charger if it can spot the slight
differences between nicad and NiMH, and reject the latter. I wonder if
that's really the problem.

Although some shavers have a "quick charge" mechanism to handle
"emergencies", I suspect most are little more than trickle chargers.

Suggestion... Try running down the NiMH cells (to 1.1V or so) before
putting them in the shaver. NiMHs generally have a higher full-charge
voltage, and the charger might be "objecting" to that.

The battery failure might also be Nature's way of reminding you that
shaving is unnatural, an affront to one's manhood that should be
abandoned post-haste.


"The 2 AA NiCd cells died, I've hot bags of AA NiMh cells..."

That's probably because the cells are making contact when they
shouldn't...

I own a Duracell AA/AAA NiMH charger that will reject NiCads.
My Energize AA/AAA NiMH doesn't care. But it also takes 30% longer
to charge than the Duracell.



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