on 2/20/02 6:51 PM, Chris Searles at csearles_at_netcologne.de wrote:
> And if the green light never appears, i.e. even after 12 hours, it means
> the batteries were more or less dead to begin with? (Before I put them in
> they could hold a 20% charge which I first drained to zero and then tried
> to recharge, but to no avail. I have the feeling the person on ebay
> cheated me by somehow getting them to hold a charge once and then not be
> rechargeable again afterwards. How he could do this remains a mystery,
> but that was the end result.)
Well, this is what started the thread. Just the day before, I had left them
in the charger overnight, and they never charged. I did what somebody else
did, however, and unplugged, plugged, unplugged, plugged, etc, every three
seconds for a minute or two. At the end, I left it plugged in, and in about
four hours, I suddenly had the green light. I had tried charging those
batteries on several occassions in the past four months, and never got them
to even get warm. This time, however, it worked. I attribute it to the
unplug-plug routine that somebody else here mentioned. Great idea. I'm still
surprised it worked. :-)
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