On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 00:06:10 -0700 mike wrote:

I bought a pair of electric scooters. They'd "fixed" the charger
and managed to get the batteries charged backwards. Can I discharge
them and charge 'em up forwards? Any special techniques? Fast/slow/
charging?

I think you should have a good shot at this. Try just discharging them
first, use a light bulb that lights normally across the battery to
discharge them, and let it go a couple days past the time when the
bulb is no longer glowing.

Then connect the charger properly and try to charge them, slowly. If
they take too much current, insert the light bulb again as a current
limiter, but you should be able to take the bulb out of the circuit
after a day or 2.

Let us know how this progresses.

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Jim Adney
Madison, WI 53711 USA
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