Yes, but it would be extremely popular with all of us hardware
guys that have this huge collection of secondary batteries lying around
and keep forgetting to keep them topped up!  It's a zoo around my
house every Halloween - trying to get all my batteries charged for
all my 'effects'.  Your idea has been my idea for the past 8 years!
Work really gets in the way of projects that you REALLY want to do!
Dave

>I'd really like to build a nice gadget with microprocessor and A/D
>converter and a couple of small adjustable current power supplies.
>You'd plug in a bunch of cells, and over the next 24 hours or so it
>would figure out which ones were OK, which ones were dead, and
>approximately what the AH rating of each cell was.  Seems like a lot of
>effort and expense to aid dumpster diving.
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>BillW
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