Recharge your disposable batteries (at your own risk)
posted October 12th 2005 12:20PM
While we are loathe to bring you a battery-charging "how-to" from a gentleman who suggests stealing the parts for
the project, these reservations are overshadowed by our intense dislike of that small pink lapine who ruins what are
otherwise very entertaining commercials. Seemingly unafraid of the long arm of the single-use-battery cartel, Afroman
has posted schematics on his site outlining a method for recharging disposable batteries. Since our high school physics
teacher was too busy ducking behind garbage cans in some intense 'Nam flashbacks to teach us the ins and outs of
electricity, we'll leave the technical details to one of our more engineering-savvy readers. Not that it needs to be
said (who are we kidding, it totally needs to be said) but you perform any type of hack like this at your own
risk (i.e. don't come crying to us when some errant battery acid melts away your pinky finger).
[Via TRFJ]
Not to be picky, but if you are referring to the little pink bunny it would be 'lepus' (from the Latin meaning 'hare') and not 'lupine' which refers to a wolf or being wolf like.
Wow, I'm a total nerd.
lupine? it's a bunny, not a wolf.
Anyway, don't they already sell rechargers for regular batteries in places like Eckerd's?
lupine: (noun) any of a genus (Lupinus) of leguminous herbs including some poisonous forms and others cultivated for their long showy racemes of usually blue, purple, white, or yellow flowers or for green manure, fodder, or their edible seeds; also : an edible lupine seed
So, uh - what?
In my experience, 1.5V Alkaline batteries can be recharged about 10 times in a normal NiCad charger, but do it before they are completely empty. I had my kids do this for their Gameboy Color batteries for a couple of years. Now they have Advance SPs with built-in rechargeables.
Notes:
1.) Don't use Duracell, they're not sealed well and will leak. Energizer and almost all other brands work fine.
2.) Don't use the discharge option before charging, if your NiCad charger offers that.
3.) Don't use speed chargers.
4.) Don't recharge 9V batteries, they are likely to leak.
Lupine's wolf, lapine's rabbit.
Finally! My mad knowlege of Watership Down comes into play.
I thought Lupine was wolf, Cunicine was rabbit?
Not that this is really the point of the article, but, the debate on "lapine" is a bit off. "Lapine" is a made up from Watership Down and is the language of the Rabbits.
A Hare is defined as: any of various swift long-eared lagomorph mammals (family Leporidae and especially genus Lepus) that are usually solitary or sometimes live in pairs and have the young open-eyed and furred at birth
A Rabbit is defined as: any of a family (Leporidae) of long-eared short-tailed lagomorph mammals with long hind legs: a : any of various lagomorphs that are born naked, blind, and helpless, that are sometimes gregarious, and that include especially the cottontails of the New World and a small Old World mammal (Oryctolagus cuniculus) that is the source of various domestic breeds.
With regard to the recharging of "disposable" batteries, this has been something we've been able to do for as long as I can remember. In the early days of my youth, recharging these batteries was possible, but, the results were sometimes messy and you threw the battery away anyway.
afrotechmods is the s**t! I have never laughed so hard reading a website as with Afroman and his antics. I recommend going through all his ghetto mods as there is absolutely no waste, guaranteed fun!
lapin is french for rabbit.
"Smurf dildo"? "Punishermark 2099"? Free Samples? I gotta hang out with this guy.
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I remember when "BuddyL" used to sell a battery charger called the "supercharger" that recharged alkaline batteries...the batteries were never quite the same but then again I doubt they pushed the limits quite as far as Afroman did-probably for various safety reasons.
At any rate, it can be done but since NiMHs last longer in high drain devices, and since pretty much everything we use these days is high drain it seems a moot point...what are you gonna do, recharge your remote control batteries once a year?
Hah thanks for the linkage guys
It's pretty trippy suddenly seeing yourself on a site you visit every day.
Fever - you won't want to hang out with me. I am not actually human, I am a cat and I might pee on your leg.
I know it's unrelated but you so hit the nail on the head with the high school physics teacher having 'nam flashbacks. I learned more about the vietcong and getting hit with shrapnel in the ass then I did about physics in his class. It was great.
I remember seeing an infomercial with... was it Dick Clark?... anyway about an alkaline battery recharger. I could swear I've seen equivalent things in the bargain-bin at Walmart and such. Afroman's style is fun though.