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Charging the unchargeable

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i have been doing some research on the internet on ways to collect or save energy without paying a bill at the end of the month and i came across an interesting article that tells the reader how to make an alkaline battery charger and would like to know if this is possible and if someone has tried it before heres the article

http://www.i-hacked.com/content/view/207/44/

energydude, Dec 01 2006

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You can to some degree recharge conventional alcaline cells, but is somewhat risky, and I don't think there is a whole lot of capacity gain.

If you want to buy battires with the thought of reusing them, but rechargeable alcalines, or even regular rechargeable cells.

classicsat, Dec 02 2006

My own experiments say that you can get away with recharging alkalines if you put them in a freezer and use an air cooled charger.

At the very least they won't explode then.

Sinus, Dec 03 2006

that is, the charger with batteries in the freezer. Not hust freezing the batteries and then put them in the charger.

Sinus, Dec 03 2006

also can anyone give me detailed plans on how to make alkaline battery charger thxs

energydude, Dec 05 2006

Re-charging a battery does not save energy, it just saves the cost of (and environmental damage due to the disposal of) the battery.
Why not just buy a proper re-chargeable battery?

ChrisF, Jan 03 2007