It's a Festivus miracle!
Cheers,
David
>
> 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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