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From: SPGDCM@CMSA.BERKELEY.EDU
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: nicads
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Date: 12 May 88 21:40:40 GMT
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 From: Doug Mosher
 Subject: nicads

 To: misc-consumers@ucbvax sci-electronics@ucbvax

 I have an electric drill and an electric screwdriver which have nicads.

 In the past I kept nicad devices (e.g. an electric shaver) on trickle
 charge, and eventually they got wek and died. So i tried just
 charging these new tools when I wanted to use them.

 But they seem to be getting "shallow" quickly. Some of what I have read
 on usenet indicates that maybe I should be leaving them on trickle
 charge rather than disconnected.

 SO: for rarely used nicad-powered appliances, is it best to
 charge when needed, or leave on trickle, or some other combination?

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 (          Doug Mosher <SPGDCM@CMSA.Berkeley.edu>            )
 ( 257 Evans, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA, 415/642-5823 )
      nicads