>Mad Dog wrote: >>I have several batteries I am trying to recondition with a >>Supercharger2. With some of the batteries, if I push the recondition >>button, it lights up for only a second. >>Does anyone know if something bad will happen if . . . >LOL, there's only a few listees who include such phrases in their >questions as this . . . MD being one them of course! > >>I use something to keep the recondition button held down ? >Why bother? If there is no charge to 'burn off', there's no point in >holding the button down. Would it hurt anything if you did hold the >button down anyway? I don't know, but you try it and let us know how it >works out. :-) I just might do that ! Look out world ! >Are you sure the battery is actually connecting to the charger's >contacts? I've had several batts that weren't, but a bit of judicious >trimming of the plastic around the batteries' contacts did the trick. > >If charging the battery in the SC2 for days and days doesn't get it to >the point of being able to 'recondition', I'm afraid what you have there >is a case for cell replacement. I just hate losing a patient. >BTW, with what type battery(s) are you currently struggling? FYI, with >_apparently-dead_ batteries, I've had no luck SC2-reviving anything >except T3s . . . > >Dan K Type 3 so far, although I have tried some T1 and T2 with no ill effects apparent. Mad Dog