battery problems

[Bert Freudenberg]

On Mar 14, 2007, at 15:02 , Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:

> On 14.03.2007 13:28, Jim Gettys wrote:
>> On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 22:00 +1100, James Cameron wrote:
>>
>>>> If so, is there any way to charge the battery?
>>> The newer firmware you have has a trickle charge that may eventually
>>> help, given enough time.  Perhaps that was B2 only though.  Can't
>>> remember.
>>
>> The trickle charge hardware is only in the B2 hardware.
>>
>> A B2 system will currently trickle charge a battery back to about  
>> 6V; it
>> is then failing to switch into regular charging mode to complete the
>> process.
>
> OK, so for my no-more-detected B1 battery the only way to recover is
> a constant current source which delivers 100mA?

Or putting it into a B2 at 303/B76? Is there anything why I shouldn't  
try to resurrect my B1 battery this way?

- Bert -