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From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: lifetime of rechargeable batteries
Message-ID: <323@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Dec-84 17:18:39 EST
Article-I.D.: qantel.323
Posted: Thu Dec  6 17:18:39 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Dec-84 03:12:54 EST
References: <1789@garfield.UUCP> <70900021@trsvax.UUCP> <6304@brl-tgr.ARPA> <269@bragvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
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In article <269@bragvax.UUCP> david@bragvax.UUCP (David DiGiacomo) writes:
>In article <6304@brl-tgr.ARPA> wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>>I also recharge alkalines the same way...
>Don't try it!  Alkalines explode readily when "charged"...

I've heard this before, in fact, it is printed on most non-rechargable
batteries.  Its never happened to me, either.  Couldn't be much of an
"explosion", anyway, as far as I'm concerned.  I have to admit that I do
put the batteries in the charger and get several feet away before
plugging it into the wall, and I don't have any flammables near the
charger at any time.  But I think that's just the battery companies
covering their tails, for that one-in-a-million alkaline that will
explode.  Obviously, they sometimes do, or they wouldn't have the warning.	
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Steve Vance
{dual,nsc,intelca,proper}!qantel!stv
Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA