Re: Battery question.

anon wrote:
> "Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message 
> news:[email protected]...
> 
>>anon wrote:
>>
>>>***
>>>If you are looking for a LARGE capacity D cell, try the industrial size - 
>>>these weigh ONE-QUARTER OF A POUND each.
>>>
>>>I had ten of these suckers in series and when I accidentally shorted them 
>>>the current burned the insulation off of the wire that did it - these are 
>>>upward of one amp capacity for a long time.
>>>
>>>You may have to do a little searching to find these but they are the kind 
>>>that are used in the hazardous vapor 'sniffers' that the haz mat people 
>>>use. (That unit uses six *matched* batteries (if one battery goes bad, 
>>>replace all of them.)
>>>
>>
>>Well if they're re-charagable, I'll get some of them.  :)
> 
> 
> ***
> Yes, but these were NiCad's with the memory problems.
> 
> BTW I have found a method of curing  the memory, shorts, and other problems 
> with the NiCads. I fixed up a 'bench' that allowed me to reverse charge the 
> batteries with voltage well over 20 volts, I would cycle the battery with 
> normal/reverse for a few seconds each and after 'maybe' a half dozen tries 
> the battery would act normal (the voltage would peak out at 5 - 10 volts - 
> probably burned out the short with the high voltage pressure) and then would 
> take a normal charge (and work for a long time normally.)
> 
> I see in your later posts that you found the better answer (not NiCads) to 
> your problem.
> 
> I guess the *industrial* opened the idea door.
> 

True industrial batteries won't work in normal chargers / devices.  But they 
have non-industrials with the stanard button top that have almost 12k mAH. 
I'll be getting some very soon.  :)