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Subject: [OM] OT - One for our resident battery expert
From: James R <londonjames@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:23:50 +0100
It's a holiday weekend and a few jobs on the flat need to be done. My  
trusty cordless drill turns out to be poorly. I apparently can't get a  
replacement battery for it for much less than the cost of a new unit  
so I searched the net for a remedy and came up with this...

http://www.instructables.com/id/Revive-Nicad-Batteries-by-Zapping-with-a-Welder

My first thought is that it must be dangerous as getting between a  
hippo and water, but enough people have commented to say that it works  
that I'm thinking it could be worth a try. (Of course, it something  
went wrong you may not be in any state to write anything).

The next problem is that I don't have a welder, but maybe a car  
battery would work. Trouble is it's a 12v drill, but as the charger  
puts out 7.2v maybe it would?

If voltage needs to be higher than 12 what about two small 9V  
batteries in parallel?

James



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