Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!gordonl
From: gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon LETWIN)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: NiCd recharging
Summary: grain of salt
Message-ID: <57370@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 12 Sep 90 19:54:41 GMT
References: <1990Sep7.132221.6202@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <17660102@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
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In article <17660102@hpfcdj.HP.COM>, myers@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Bob Myers) writes:
> 
> Once again, with feeling:
> 
> There IS NO "memory effect" in nicads, at least none that has ever been
> documented by the battery manufacturers since the very early days of these
> cells.  

You should take what Mr. Myers says with a grain of salt.  Motorolla,
a very major presense in portable radios and therefore a world expert
on Nicad batterys, specifically says that there *is* memory effect on
nicads.  If you buy one of their MicroTacs they tell you to full discharge
it's nicad battery periodically.  They say not to do that with the lead acid
battery also provided.

Obviously, this isn't proof that Mr. Myers is wrong, but I'll place my bets
on Motorolla - I expect they know quite a bit more about the subject then
Mr. Myers.

	gordon letwin