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In article <1993Jul5.132848.17392@gagme.chi.il.us> gst@gagme.chi.il.us (George Thurman) writes:
>This my be sort of off-topic for this newsgroup, but I thought I would
>ask anyway.
>
>I have seen recently on TV a product being advertised called the
>"Buddy-L Super Charger".  This is a battery charger designed to
>recharge ALKALINE batteries.  They claim that thier charger is safe
>to use, and that you can ignore the warning message on Alkaline batteries
>when you use THIER charger.

>
>I am considering ordering this charger, but I would like to talk
>to someone who has one first.
>
>Does anyone reading this  have this product.  Does anyone know of
>any other ALKALINE battery chargers manufactured by other companies.


	I am not a chemist. I am sure a chemist would able to explain
why primary cells can not be charged.

	This recharging of primary cells pops up now and again. In
fact when I first came across it, it was explained that only carbon
zinc cells could be recharged and only if they were not completely
flat. Furthermore, the charging current had to be DC with an AC
component. I first saw this in an RSGB publication, I think Pat
Hawker's column.

	I built one of these chargers. Without doing a controlled
experiment, I would say that they did not increase the life of my
batteries. The only effect I was able to notice was that one cell
exploded and left black crud all over the cieling.

	If you seriously think that someone has discovered that
Mallory and Union Carbide have lied to us for all these years and you
can really recharge Alkaline batteries, how come it has taken  DIck
Clark and this long for the secret to come out?

	Also, how come no-one has built a "made for recharging"
alkaline?

	I don't think the shareholders of Union Carbide or the
manufacturers of Ni-Cads are too worried.



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