Then all I can suggest is to take a pencil eraser and clean the battery and
charger contacts.
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From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of James R
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 12:53 AM
To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [OM] Re: OT - One for our resident battery expert
Chuck and Moose:
I should have used a brighter light when I looked at the tiny embossed
type on the charger - it's 7.2 - 14.4v. So clearly a 12v car battery
ain't going to do much.
James
On 24 Aug 2008, at 23:24, Moose wrote:
> James R wrote:
>> It's a holiday weekend and a few jobs on the flat need to be done.
>> My trusty cordless drill turns out to be poorly. I apparently can't
>> get a replacement battery for it for much less than the cost of a
>> new unit so I searched the net for a remedy and came up with this...
>>
>>
http://www.instructables.com/id/Revive-Nicad-Batteries-by-Zapping-with-a-Wel
der
>>
> Well, it was at least entertaining. I wonder if I kept the dead
> battery
> pack from my drill...
>> ... Trouble is it's a 12v drill, but as the charger puts out 7.2v
>> maybe it would?
>>
> Have you considered that the trouble may BE that "the charger puts out
> 7.5v". I'd check it again. If it is only charging a 12v battery to
> 7.5
> v, you would indeed have a drill acting like it was feeling poorly.
>
> If you have no other chargers, (which seems unlikely on this list) a
> car
> battery should be safe. Putting 12v across a 12v battery should be
> safe
> for the simple reason that that's what the charger is supposed to do.
> It's not like the 31v the video uses.
>
> Moose
>
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