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Title: Help draining batteries???
Post by: Swampy on December 01, 2003, 10:17:27 PM
Is there anyway I can drain my AAs with out leaving them in a cd player or somthing??? THANKS!
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: Kindguy on December 01, 2003, 10:22:11 PM
flashlight works well.
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: Swampy on December 01, 2003, 10:24:37 PM
ahh, nice thinking! T+
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: Brian Skalinder on December 01, 2003, 10:51:50 PM
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.
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: Swampy on December 01, 2003, 10:53:15 PM
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!
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: Swampy on December 01, 2003, 10:59:36 PM
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+
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: InfiniteOhms on December 01, 2003, 11:52:15 PM
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.
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: Willie T. on December 02, 2003, 12:54:18 AM
this is my favorite website, I know they have some DIY battery chargers, check it out

http://www.discovercircuits.com
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: InfiniteOhms on December 02, 2003, 01:10:55 AM
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.
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: blu666z on December 02, 2003, 01:29:00 AM
Get a wireless optical mouse.  Mine eats them like Oprah goes after Twinkies.

-Kevin
Title: Re:Help draining batteries???
Post by: Sean Gallemore on December 02, 2003, 02:16:58 AM
:lol: +T