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To: 1066AD

Ive said this from the beginning.

Anyone who has ever owned a cordless drill knows that the batteries are a problem.

BTW, I am told that you can overcome the problem of Battery “memory” by applying a high amount of amperage at the batteries rated voltage across its terminals of the defective battery.

This apparently will blow away the memory junction in the battery.

Caveat: “Kids... dont try this at home”


5 posted on 09/30/2007 9:22:33 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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More fun facts:

Did you know that you can make a light out of a Dill Pickle?

Take a lamp cord and strip the wires at the end. Then wrap each wire around a nail.
Insert the nails, + and - in opposing ends of the pickle.

plug the lamp cord into a wall socket and watch the pickle light up a glorious orange, like a fluorescent light!

Caveat: Kids... Don’t try this at home!


7 posted on 09/30/2007 9:29:32 AM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife
Ive said this from the beginning.

Anyone who has ever owned a cordless drill knows that the batteries are a problem.

BTW, I am told that you can overcome the problem of Battery “memory” by applying a high amount of amperage at the batteries rated voltage across its terminals of the defective battery.

This apparently will blow away the memory junction in the battery.

Caveat: “Kids... dont try this at home”

The only way you can apply more amperage is to either up the voltage or lower the resistance of the circuit. Neither one seems very feasible when charging batteries.

16 posted on 09/30/2007 9:54:00 AM PDT by calex59
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To: mylife

Not to nitpick so much, but how to apply large amounts of amperage without lots of voltage to push those amps through? Better that those drill manufacturers switch to LiIon instead of the 60$ NiMH that I am buying now. As far as the pickle thing, I’m going to try that, but since the a.c. line switches polarity 60 times per second, there really is no + or - . Freegards.


43 posted on 09/30/2007 8:40:24 PM PDT by printhead
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