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Posted by Andrew Williams on August 5, 2006, 11:09 pm
What the hell do I know? I've only been successfully doing this for
years. Must be a fluke. At least I gave some advice that can
actually work instead of just shooting down someone's advice.
> That is very good advice, providing your goal is to kill the cells entirely.
> You should not completely discharge NiCd batteries. Read
> http://www.repairfaq.org/ELE/F_NiCd_Battery.html#NICDBATTERY_005 for a
> reasonably technical discussion of this and other properties of NiCds.
>
> todd
>
> > The traditional way to erase battery memory is to deep-cycle the
> > battery. For a drill/driver, I would use it until the thing hardly
> > turns at all, then find a way of clamping the trigger down so as to
> > completely drain the battery. You want to get it as close to 0VDC as
> > possible. After that, fully charge the unit and see if the memory has
> > been erased.
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> >> I have a Panasonic 12v (NiCads) cordless drill/driver with 2 batteries
> >> and it seems to me that the batteries aren't holding a charge very well.
> >> They are around 3-4 years old, lightly used. They seem to charge too
> >> quickly. If I leave them in the charger after the charger shows them as
> >> fully charged and let them trickle charge, will that top them up? I
> >> haven't been doing that.
> >>
> >> Is this a loss of capacity of the batteries? Is there some way I can
> >> restore the capacity of the batteries? Any experience with these? Thanks
> >> for any ideas, info, suggestions, etc.
> >>
> >> Dan
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