From: Alan Davis (mdawd_at_earthlink.net)
Date: Wed Apr 28 2004 - 18:29:45 PDT
I had an old rebuilt battery that Batteries Plus did for me in 2002 that was
not holding a charge worth anything; figured I'd give it a go. Yesterday,
the battery would start discharging and be at 60-70% charge right after
taking it off the charger. Today it is still at 100% after almost an hour!
(BTW I did break the end off the battery where Batteries Plus had glued it
back on. Looks ugly, but it still works!). I'm starting to wonder if some of
these miraculous stories that you hear about people getting perfectly good
Newton batteries that were supposed to be dead shipped to them weren't just
rough handling by our wonderful and caring postal workers. ;-)
_____
We trained hard- but it seemed that every time we began to form up into
teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to
meet any new situation by reorganizing- and a wonderful method it can be for
creating the illusion of progress while producing confusion, inefficiency,
and demoralization.
Petronius Arbiter
210 B.C.
On 04/28/04 11:43 AM, "Andrei Chichak" <acpmiedm_at_telusplanet.net> wrote:
> After the discussion of using physical abuse to rejuvenate batteries last
> week, I decided to give it a go.
>
> The battery in my Panasonic wireless telephone (3 cell NiCd) was giving up
> AGAIN. It had a useful life of about 2 minutes. I took it out and slapped
> it hard against the floor, 4 times, 2 on each side. Result; I put the
> batteries back into the phone and used it for at least 10 minutes.
> Previously it would not even start the phone. It then went on to be useful
> for another couple of days. It charges well and has a good capacity.
>
> My Newton 2100 battery had a rough life, high tech R&D test mule, sitting
> in a lockup for 2 years, sitting in my basement for another 2 years,
> pressed into action. Useful life, about 20 minutes, it usually wouldn't
> make it through the night while sleeping. I smacked it into the floor a few
> times and gave it a good charge. No shoddy statistics on life yet, it has
> only been three days and it is still at full charge.
>
> Use this any way you see fit,
> Andrei
>
> Let the flame wars begin.
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