Topic: Help draining batteries???

[Swampy]

Is there anyway I can drain my AAs with out leaving them in a cd player or somthing??? THANKS!

[Kindguy]

flashlight works well.

[Swampy]

ahh, nice thinking! T+

[Brian Skalinder]

Are these rechargable AAs?  If so, many chargers have a discharge feature that will drain them completely and then re-charge to full capacity afterwards.  If not, yeah...flashlights work well.

[Swampy]

Are these rechargable AAs?  If so, many chargers have a discharge feature that will drain them completely and then re-charge to full capacity afterwards.  If not, yeah...flashlights work well.

Ya, but I have a dirt cheap ratshack charger, with no bells or whistles thanks for the help though!

[Swampy]

fwiw/fyi.......
The replacement lamps on maglite bulbs recommends not using rechargeables to power them. I went through a bunch of bulbs before I read this disclaimer.

hmmmmm, thanks for the warning Mike, Ill look into it. T+

[InfiniteOhms]

im sure you could build a ultra simple circut to drain batts for you ... might be an interesting DIY project to. I personaly would have no idea how you would go about doing this, but many of the people on here seem to know a HUGE amount about ... well everything, so im sure someone would know how to do this.

[Willie T.]

this is my favorite website, I know they have some DIY battery chargers, check it out

http://www.discovercircuits.com

[InfiniteOhms]

actuly ... i'l bet you could pick up a fan and a AA battery holder at radio shack for under $5 i think there is a mini fan thing that runs on 6v DC ... so using that just to burn power you could drain 4 AA's at a time.... its 1am, so this idea might turn out to be real stupid in the morning.

[blu666z]

Get a wireless optical mouse.  Mine eats them like Oprah goes after Twinkies.

-Kevin

[Sean Gallemore]

+T