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From: grege@gold.GVG.TEK.COM (Gregory Ebert)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Battery Responces (long)
Message-ID: <854@gold.GVG.TEK.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 17:17:56 GMT
References: <9003140842.aa27085@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU>
Organization: Grass Valley Group, Grass Valley, CA
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>There's a very fun way to fix these internally-shorted cells:
>
>      3) Using thick wire, connect charged capacitor across battery pack
>         terminals, observing correct polarity.  When you complete the
>         circuit, a SURGE of current will flow through the battery pack
>         (which can be up to 50 AMPERES!) which will "melt" the internal
>         shorts.
>
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