Reconditioning batteries, a how to guide!

NiMH - Nickel Metal Hydride :

NiMH batteries are rechargeable batteries that are a great replacement for alkalines or "ni-cads". They come in common sizes such as AAA, AA, C, D, and 9V. Their cells are of nominal voltage (1.2V) but when fully charged they approach 1.4-1.5V.

Power Capability: 0.2C
Pros: Rechargeable, high power density, higher power capability than alkalines, common sizes
Cons: Self-discharge quickly andmore expensive than NiCds and alkalines.

NiCd - Nickel-Cadmium:

NiCd batteries, or "ni-cads" are the first family of small rechargeable batteries. They come in 1.2V cells.. They can be found in old wireless phones and remote controls. They are also available in common sizes like coin cells, AAA, AA, C, D, and 9V. Unfortunately, their toxicity make them a poor alternative to safer and more superior rechargeables like the NiMH.

Pros: Rechargeable, cheap, and hold their charge a long time
Cons: Low power density, Require frequent discharge/recharge to reduce the batteries memory, contain toxic cadmium
Power Density: 40-60 Wh/kg

Lead-acid batteries:

Lead Acid batteries usually come in the form of a big black box (OK, maybe not always black). They provide a lot of power, are rechargeable, but they however weight a lot. You can find them most often in automobiles, boats, scooters, motorcycles, etc. Lead acids are made up 2V cells, so you will find them with a voltage in multiples of 2V with the most common ones being 6V, 12V, 18V, and 24V.

Power Capability: +10C
Pros: Cheap, powerful, rechargeable, and high power capability
Cons: Heavy, large, and toxic
Power Density: 30-40 Wh/kg

A battery is a tank with chemicals that produce electrons. These are called electrochemical reactions.

Batteries have two terminals. One terminal is marked (+), or positive, and the other is marked (-), or negative. In an normal AA, C or D cell (normal flashlight batteries that you buy at supermarkets), the ends of the battery are the terminals. In a large car battery, there are two heavy lead posts that act as the terminals.

The speed of electron production by this reaction says how many electrons can flow between the terminals. Electrons flow from the battery into a wire, and must travel from the negative to the positive terminal for the chemical reaction to take place. That is why a battery can sit on a shelf for a year and still have plenty of power -- unless electrons are flowing from the negative to the positive terminal, the chemical reaction does not take place.

That's easy but few people know!

Rechargeable batteries do NOT last forever. There are only so many times that you can charge and recharge them. First they start to lose power and you find that there is less and less usable time that you have before you must charge again.

Some people have termed this as the memory effect. The term "memory" basically is described as the battery "remembers" its usual discharge point and superficially "needs" a charge whenever it hits that point.

In other words, if you have a NiCd that always gets discharged to only 50% of its capacity, it will eventually not run below that 50% mark if you ever wanted to discharge it to a lower point.

In a new NiCd battery the active cadmium is present in finely divided crystals. The memory effect develops as these crystals grow and reduce the effective surface area of the cadmium.

Battery reconditioning can be performed by anyone with basic equipment that you can find everywhere, and the best thing is that it will not cost you over $40. In fact, these tips can be put into practice when it comes to various batteries reconditioning, from car batteries to cell phone and even iPod batteries!

You can even take things further, because if you learn how to recondition batteries, you may even find it to be a profitable business venture on a small scale. There are several things you have to take into consideration when reconditioning a battery.

Through the reconditioning report you will:

Learn how to recondition rechargeable batteries - Keeps a battery healthy and can extend the run time of your batteries.

Learn how to rejuvenate dead batteries - This simple procedure can revive seemingly dead batteries.

Learn how to measure a battery's charge capacity - This tells you how much energy a battery can store at a given time and allows you to measure the improvement that you made.

Learn how to revert a reversed cell - When a cell is reversed in a battery pack it is really bad. Learn how to revert it back.

Learn why batteries need to be reconditioned - Learn the theory in plain English, how a battery develops the memory effect and how reconditioning reduces and eliminates this effect.

Learn how to tell if a battery needs to be reconditioned - Some batteries may not respond well to reconditioning. Others will dramatically improve. Learn how to tell the difference.

Learn how to perform all these procedures with inexpensive tools - This will allow you to do everything to achieve maximum results and to go into business reconditioning batteries.

All the above are contained in a 46 pages report - Detailed instructions in each section explains exactly what you need to do in plain English, having large full color photographs - so that you can clearly see what we are talking about. Pictures are worth a thousand words!

The Complete Battery Reconditioning Report solves the problem of pre-mature dead batteries and increases the life span of the battery up to 5 times.

In addition to this in depth guide you will also receive a lifetime of updates. Anytime there are any updates you will be notified via email. As technology and methods advance new techniques are discovered that you will know immidiately!

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