All,
Have read Red's (he hee read Reds -- sounds funny) battery clinic and how to reuse and test at home chargers already on hand etc. I was wondering if the output voltage made much difference when choosing one to start with. I read somewhere in this forum that you must have at more output voltage than your combined cell voltage (over 7.2V for a 6 cell NiCd). How important is this and will it come to light anyway once you check the current of the circuit with your Ammeter and get the real deal? I took Juice in college but all I can remember is twinkle twinkle little star V=IR and that you add voltage for a series and add current when hooked in parallel. I'm sure there should be some easy mathmatical formula I could do to calculate what my charge rate in ma would be for a 7.2V NiCd with 6 cells @ 600ma when hooked to a --for example -- an output of 15V and 200 ma. Some one who remembers this stuff help me out.