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Old February 21st, 2007, 19:28   #7
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Originally Posted by Kos-Mos View Post
If there is a single cell of the pack heating up very fast, this means your pack is near the en of it's life. Nothing can be done about it.
Not exactly. You can dismantle the pack, pick out the good cells, ditch the bad ones and make a new pack. It's much easier to do with NiCad than it is with NiMh, as they're a more robust chemistry. Right now I'm building new packs out of old Panasonic KR1700 cells I had lying around. I took a bunch of packs apart, tested the individual cells and am putting new packs together out of what's still useable.
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