"Phil Allison" wrote in message ...

Fine. Nothing new.

** All new to YOU, ****head.

I've killed men for less than that.

I wasn't expecting you to repeat common knowledge about rechargeable
batteries.


But why the high voltage?

** When on charge - point 1 applies.
** Cease charge the pack and the voltage drops almost immediately.
** V = I x R ..........
** Wot an idiot.

You don't see it, do you? Of course not.

The same thought crossed my mind. The question is... why should a cell's
voltage -- which is supposedly determined by the battery's chemistry --
essentially double (assuming only one cell is bad)? Why should the cell become
a sort of electrochemical chameleon, trying to match the voltage across it?