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Default Reviving old NiCd batteries

On Jun 18, 11:56*am, wrote:
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:30:24 -0700 (PDT), bob haller
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I have also heard of people doing the same thing with a car battery
but the down side of that is that the battery pack can blow up if
there are to many internal shorts.


car batteries plates are consumed and fall apart after awhile, you
might get a shorted cell once in a great while but the vast majority
of car batteries plates just disengrate


I was talking about using the car battery to fix the nicad


Sorry i miss toook what you said

But nicad cell wear out too, one failure must be shorted cell, but
nothing lasts forever

A local tool store had a big business going for awhile, apparently
zapping battery packs. Ther business ended as people lined up for
refunds....