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From: pjh@mccc.edu (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: NiCd behavior
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.175605.12524@mccc.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 17:56:05 GMT
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In article <1991Jun17.092406.11386@neon.Stanford.EDU> zimmer@calvin.stanford.edu (Andrew Zimmerman) writes:
=1 hour to charge a battery, thats not a fast charge :-)  I do 15-20 minute
=charges.  (Oh course, that is for quick discharge NiCd's.)
=
=Truthfully, I abuse my NiCd's.  I always charge them in 15 minutes, and
=I even charge them when they're hot.  I have never had a problem with
=NiCd memory.  I do try to discharge them completely, but I don't go
=to the extreme of hooking resistors or light bulbs to them.
=
=The above is just my personal experience.  I am not saying that you
=should do quick charges, or that NiCd's don't have memory.  

How do you accomplish discharging them completely?

Pete
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