otto@tukki.jyu.fi (Otto J. Makela) (10/15/90)
I remember seeing back in the good old days (when I still had time to play around with a soldering iron) plans for a device for loading NiCd accumulators with some kind of a pulsed system. The article (I believe it was in Elektor or some such hobby-electronics magazine) claimed that this lengthened the life of NiCd cells, since "bridging" in the cells was eliminated by the high- amperage pulses (no flames, I might be totally misquoting this -- it's a long time). Anyway, I suddenly now have a bunch of essentially dead NiCd's I'd like to play games with. Anyone have pointers on this, ideas on effectiveness etc. ? Responses via email, please. If there is larger interest, I'll sum. -- /* * * Otto J. Makela <otto@jyu.fi> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */ /* Phone: +358 41 613 847, BBS: +358 41 211 562 (CCITT, Bell 24/12/300) */ /* Mail: Kauppakatu 1 B 18, SF-40100 Jyvaskyla, Finland, EUROPE */ /* * * Computers Rule 01001111 01001011 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * */