On 03.9.23 3:40 AM, "Anders Hultman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ten odd years ago I worked at a local tv station, and noticed how the > video photographers used to empty the camera batteries completely before > recharging them. To do that they used big, hot power resistors, or more > often, light bulbs to drain the batteries quickly. > > Is this a practice I should adopt too with the Ni-MH batteries to my > digital camera? Ni-MH batteries do not need as frequent a discharging as Ni-Cad requires but I recently saw a post that the draining it by light bulbs is not a recommended practice as the rate of draining is too fast and shorten the life of batteries. Today, the recommended way, if you do not have a proper discharge circuit that will drain the battery in a controlled way, is use it for portable CD player or Walkman or some such thing which will drain it more slowly. However, I am writing this out of my memory and you should ask someone who is knowledgeable about the design of rechargeable batteries or dig deep into the cyberspace :-). Cheers, Ken
