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| Keeping Rechargeable Batteries Straight |
Submitted by:
anonymous 06/02/2009 6:58 AM
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I usually have four or five pairs of rechargeable batteries kicking around, and I needed some sort of system to keep the pairs together, and a system to to keep track of what was charged, and what needed to be charged. I went so far as to drill holes in a block of wood, two rows of pairs of holes, with a row for charged and a row for uncharged.
Well DUH! (Imagine me smacking myself in the forehead.) One day I realized there was a more logical and simpler way. Maybe this is obvious, but it didn't occur to me for a while.
I now bind pairs with a rubber band. If charged I put them together facing the same direction, and if uncharged I face them the opposite direction. So say I'm out for a hike with a portable CD-player/radio and I have spare batteries in my pocket. I need to switch batteries. I remove the rubber band from the charged set, bind the uncharged set, and put them in my pocket. At the end of the day when I empty my pockets, those uncharged batteries go on my bureau where I keep the charged ones. I am now never confused what is charged and what is uncharged.
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