Reviving a Dead battery

[angelique510]

High tech solution for bring a dead auto batt back to life:

One of the batties for my J118 died. This is what I did. I took it (battery only) in my fist and pounded on my knee real hard - LED up and then LED down. Then I put the connector end in my mouth and sucked on it real hard, blew on it real hard, and repeated a couple of time. Now it is as good as new!!!

juice can leak into the hole in the battery and gunk up the little vacuum activated switch that is in there. Happens all the time. I wonder how many batts I have thrown away that I could have fixed this way?

I know you don't have this problem with manual batts - but I have having to push buttons.

~A

 

[yuzuru]

. . . I had just had a replacement battery arrive on the same day as my second one died after having it for only three weeks (the first one died about a week and a half in) and I thought I'd be ordering a new battery every week.

This tip made my day.

 

[tarkus]

I had a greencig batt die. Only about 1 week old. Just for the heck of it I ran a needle around the the inner post. A small metal flake fell out so it must have shorted out. Works great now...you just never know what is wrong.