Treversal
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Could the problem of the exploding Ni-Cad have been the 4 amp charging current?...Fast charge would generally be about 1 amp or slightly less on Ni-Cads, if i remember correctly..This would be back in the 80's. I built a radio controlled car. Back then everything was expensive for this sport. So I built my rc car from an old Barbie Corvette plastic body. I even assembled a Ni-Cad battery pack from scratch. I built the battery charger from scratch too. One day I was charging the battery pack and realized the time had slipped my mind. The charge time was 15 minutes at 4 amps. But I was late to turn off the charger. At 20 minutes I arrived to see the battery pack explode just as I walked into the garage. There was a funny smell in the air. At the scene of the explosion the battery pack was missing. I expected to see some type of carcass around somewhere in the garage. I scoured the whole garage for about an hour. No battery pack was found. It was about a week later I was walking by the spot where the accident happened. There it was! The battery pack carcass right in the spot where I was charging it a week before. It wasn't all there either. Just the outer shells of the Ni-Cad batteries. The insides were missing. I just figured overcharging the Ni-Cads had caused a temporal relocation forward in time.
No. Back then we would fast charge a Ni-Cad battery pack at the 4 amp rate for 15 minutes. The problem was I over charged them by going 20 minutes. I knew I had screwed up and was running to the garage to turn off the charger. They were only 1 amp hour batteries. By going that extra 5 minutes, I got the charge up to 1.33 amp hours. Ni-Cads get hot when over charged. As time went on manufacturers developed a temperature sensor that you could attach to the battery pack when charging. Kind of like a toaster that turns off at a particular temperature. They had timers for charging but that cost extra money.Could the problem of the exploding Ni-Cad have been the 4 amp charging current?...Fast charge would generally be about 1 amp or slightly less on Ni-Cads, if i remember correctly..
I understood what you had said about the extra 5 minutes, but you threw me a curve ball by saying, "the insides were missing, i just figured overcharging the Nicads had caused a temporal relocation forward in time" ....I was aware of the temperature sensors, i had several amateur radio transceivers for portable/mobile work back in the 1980s, although nowadays i use the small hand held transceivers that i dont need a large shoulder holster to put them into, they are small enough to fit perfectly and covertly into any of my pockets, and are fitted with a very small 7.4 volt battery ..No. Back then we would fast charge a Ni-Cad battery pack at the 4 amp rate for 15 minutes. The problem was I over charged them by going 20 minutes. I knew I had screwed up and was running to the garage to turn off the charger. They were only 1 amp hour batteries. By going that extra 5 minutes, I got the charge up to 1.33 amp hours. Ni-Cads get hot when over charged. As time went on manufacturers developed a temperature sensor that you could attach to the battery pack when charging. Kind of like a toaster that turns off at a particular temperature. They had timers for charging but that cost extra money.
I understood what you had said about the extra 5 minutes, but you threw me a curve ball by saying, "the insides were missing, i just figured overcharging the Nicads had caused a temporal relocation forward in time" ....I was aware of the temperature sensors, i had several amateur radio transceivers for portable/mobile work back in the 1980s, although nowadays i use the small hand held transceivers that i dont need a large shoulder holster to put them into, they are small enough to fit perfectly and covertly into any of my pockets, and are fitted with a very small 7.4 volt battery ..
If you are trying to persuade me to overcharge any of my amateur radio transceivers Ni-Cads to prove your potential time machine propulsion engine, forget it my friend! ....May i respectfully suggest you go onto Ebay or Amazon to buy Ni-Cads for yourself ...joking..I wouldn't be surprised if the reason for using LiPo batteries now is because of the temporal relocation problem associated with Ni-Cads.
Just consider that most inventions are invented based on examples given by mother nature. So this avenue could be pursued by someone willing to research the Ni-Cad overcharging phenomena as a potential time machine propulsion engine. Obviously nickel and cadmium is the fuel that gets burned up to propel a time machine through time.