Re: Slightly OT: Recharging Mobile batteries



tim <tim_not_at_home2006@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Can I recharge the battery by just connecting the terminals
on the charger plug to the terminals on the battery, for an
hour or so, or is something more complicated than this
required?

Quite impossible to tell. For starters, it depends *heavily* on what
phone that is. Somewhere in the chain between the mains power and the
accumulator cells, there *must* be an accumulator charge/discharge
control circuit. As long as you don't reveal the model of that phone,
it's anyone's guess where that circuit might be. It could be in the
battery itself, or in the phone, or (possible, but much less likely)
it could even be in the charger.

You'll most likely find that the number of terminals on the battery
isn't even the same as the number of pins on the charger's connector,
and that's before we start considering unknown polarities and
pin-to-pin mappings.

--
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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