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It's strange to see you describe the "how to find the bad cell" problem with reference to Alkaline cells, then go right on and suggest the use of Ni-Cad battery packs! Ni-Cad battery packs have the same problem that any other type of serial (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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I don't know about other rechargables, but bad Ni-Cds can be identified. The charger I use has a test mode which measures the battery's characteristics (perhaps putting a load on it a observing the voltage discharge curve?) and indicates its output (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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(...) Actually, finding a bad NiCd is easy - split the battery into its component cells, and individually charge/discharge them (or even just check their voltage and polarity if they're REALLY shot) to rate their characteristics. Dedicated racers, (...) (25 years ago, 18-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Robert Munafo <munafo@gcctechNO.SPAMcom> wrote in message news:FLExzw.6yG@lugnet.com... (...) with (...) Ni-Cad (...) It may seem so, but the years of experience with NiCd, and the support for them is much better. For example, most serious packs are (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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No, you all missed the point. Jack was talking about the idea of LEGO(r) providing an external NiCad battery pack solution to certain perceived problem (the difficulty of taking a robot apart in order to change the batteries in an RCX, Scout, etc.). (...) (25 years ago, 19-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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Hey, all I want is to have the smallest lightest RCX and that means leaving the batteries out of it. I don't really care how they do the connectors. I even have one of those boxes with the button. I just think power source and power sink should be (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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