{"id":9365,"date":"2006-12-20T01:21:01","date_gmt":"2006-12-20T01:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9365"},"modified":"2006-12-20T01:21:01","modified_gmt":"2006-12-20T01:21:01","slug":"more-battery-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9365","title":{"rendered":"More Battery Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"280\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/niCadBattHack1.jpg\">The piece we <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/modules.php?op=modload&#038;name=News&#038;file=article&#038;sid=1555&#038;mode=flat&#038;order=0&#038;thold=1\" target=\"new\">posted<\/a> a couple of weeks ago on how to recharge non- rechargeable batteries got a lot of links o&#8217; love. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructables.com\/id\/EPV474YLF3EV2Z8V9V\/?ALLSTEPS\" target=\"new\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> another cool battery hack. This one&#8217;s on &#8220;jolting&#8221; nicad battery packs back to life using an arc welder as a DC power source. What you&#8217;re doing is over-powering the cells which breaks up the crystal dendrites that build up and cause the cells to short. You can also use a car battery, a DC Power Supply, or even high-charge capacitors &#8212; any DC power source with decent juice. This operation is obviously not without danger, so you should know what you&#8217;re doing, wear proper protection, etc. But as you can see from the video, a little Frankenstein action is just what these batteries need to be brought back to life. Cool. <\/p>\n<p> [Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.makezine.com\" target=\"new\">Make<\/a>] <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The piece we posted a couple of weeks ago on how to recharge non- rechargeable batteries got a lot of links o&#8217; love. Here&#8217;s another cool battery hack. This one&#8217;s on &#8220;jolting&#8221; nicad battery packs back to life using an arc welder as a DC power source. What you&#8217;re doing is over-powering the cells which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More Battery Hacking&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}