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Has anybody tried it ? its for putting new life back into old power tool batteries, i had six duff 14.4 volt Elu and Dewalt batteries, managed to bring four back to life
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How did you put life back into them?

was it with a mig welder?
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the welder trick will only burn out any shorts within the cells, it will not overcome the memory effect
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ultimatehandyman wrote:How did you put life back into them?

was it with a mig welder?
Hiya

No i used 12v battery charger and 12v battery, but as Tim saya in the next post it doesn't seem to get rid of the memory
Is the other trick with a mig or ark welder ?
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