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Re: NiMH Battery Question

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"ehsjr" <ehsjr@verizon.net> wrote in message 
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> On 5/30/2018 9:08 PM, ABLE1 wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Quick question.  What would the expected voltage be
>> for a new VARTA 3.6vdc 70mAH NiMH rechargeable battery??
>>
>> Or maybe the better question would be:
>> If the voltage is at 1.76vdc would the battery be good??
>>
>> Thanks in advance for all insight,
>>
>> Les
>>
>
>
> Bad battery. It should read 1.43 volts per cell
> immediately after it is fully charged.  Yours is
> a 3 cell battery, nominal voltage 3.6 V, voltage
> immediately after a full charge should be 4.29 V.

An enthusiastically charged cell could read as high as 1.47V - settling to 
the nominal 1.2V should take QUITE a while. 

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  Re: NiMH Battery Question dplatt@coop.radagast.org (Dave Platt) - 2018-05-30 22:43 -0700
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        Re: NiMH Battery Question ABLE1 <somewhere@nowhere.net> - 2018-06-04 19:26 -0400
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