> Jinx,
>
> I have the commercially made NiCad Zapper in one of
> my junk piles. I vaguely recall that it charged a capacitor
> to 40 VDC and discharged the capacitor into the NiCad
> battery. If your interested, I could locate the NiCad Zapper
> and forward the schematic to you.
>
> Sincerely,
> Ned Seith

Ned, yes I would be interested if you can find the time. I've
just tried a 10000/50 cap at 15V and that seems to have
woken a battery up. I'll see how it does under normal charge.
Still a few more batteries to experiment on (I must be the
poster-boy for War On Waste !!) using other's suggestions

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