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- From: junikka@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jari Junikka)
- Subject: Re: NiCad batteries again
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.030643.21030@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Keywords: Storage, interrupted charging
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
- References: <1992Nov10.062202.14404@schaefer.math.wisc.edu> <1992Nov10.084031.5374@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 03:06:43 GMT
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- byu@sys.toronto.edu (Benjamin Yu) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Nov10.062202.14404@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- > junikka@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jari Junikka) writes:
- >>1) Should one store NiCad batteries charged or
- >> discharged during long periods of disuse (or is it
- >> nonuse)?
-
- >According to the manuals of devices that use NiCad batteries, all of them
- >that I have seen seem to say that you should charge it once in a
- >while (every 6 months, depends).
-
- So should they be stored charged, then fully charged and recharged again.
- Or should they be stored uncharged, then charged and discharged for storage
- for next six months or so....
-
- jari
-