-=> ROY J. TELLASON wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 RJT> Wayne Chirnside wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 RJT> Which reminds me,  I have a set of 5000mAH D cells that don't have
 RJT> them,  and besides that,  they don't have the "button"
that one usually
 RJT> finds on the top of those.  I thought about sticking them in the little
 RJT> charger I have here, but they don't make any contact at the positive
 RJT> end.  I guess I'm going to have to get some single-D-cell holders and
 RJT> wire up a charger to them.

 WC> That's what I do, Rat Shack has holders and my charger consists of
 WC> transformer, rectifier, bayonet base lamp holders with which I
 WC> limit current with appropriate lamp and interchangeable battery
 WC> holders for various size batteries.

 RJT> So what lamp would you use with these?

Any lamp rated at the voltage difference between my trasformer 
and the cell with a current rating of 1/10th C which is the charge rate
for pretty much all but fast rechargables that use sophisticated 
electronics. Works well for me. Buy the lamps at radio shack.
For the 5,000 M.A. cells you mention in another post a suitable lamp 
would be one that draws 500 M.A.'s which is 1/10th C and whose
volage is the difference between the transformer and load

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