Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site qantel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!pesnta!amd!dual!qantel!stv 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 Lines: 18 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. -- Steve Vance {dual,nsc,intelca,proper}!qantel!stv Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA