When my son and I were racing electric radio control cars, I made a discharge unit that was basically a dead short with resistors in between the contacts. Worked fine. I had it set up to discharge at a very high rate to mimic the way the car's motor discharged. (It was about 1 ohm resistance.) I would think that a dead short with something like 20 ohms resistance wired in between would provide a nice discharge for the NIMH batteries. Paul On Jul 25, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Scott Loveless wrote:
> On 7/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Obviously these batteries aren't holding a full charge. I know >> that cycling >> batteries (drain, charge, drain, charge, etc) is supposed to help >> NiMH >> batteries regain their former capacity, but I haven't any ideas >> how to drain >> the batteries in a relatively short period of time. >> >> I suppose I could stick them in a flash and repeatedly hit the >> test button over >> and over until there's nothing left, but I've got a feeling this >> wouldn't be >> good for the flash tube. >> >> Does anyone have any ideas for discharging AA batteries? >> >> Or, should I just bite the bullet and buy all new sets? >> > > I had the same problem recently. Cheap flashlights are notorious for > quickly draining batteries. I loaded up a couple of AA flashlights, > turned them on and walked away. The whole experiment was a big > failure and I saw very little, if any, improvement. Just get some new > batteries. > > > -- > Scott Loveless > http://www.twosixteen.com > Shoot more film! > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
