For 45 years, nickel-cadmium (NiCd; also Ni-Cad™, see Editor's Note below) batteries have plagued me. That's because I like to spend my Sunday afternoons relaxing with radio-controlled aircraft, such ...

Batteries are expensive, and as the proud owner of at least a dozen dead AA NiCD batteries I'm too cheap to discard, Indestructibles' latest hack will be the first I am certain to implement: reviving ...

It turns out there’s nothing more than six Nickel Cadmium AA rechargeable batteries inside of that cordless Dremel battery pack. Yep, standard rechargeable AA’s that you can buy most anywhere, and now ...

No one will deny that cordless drills can be super convenient. Sure, they need to be charged once in a while but that’s not a big deal. The big deal is when the batteries no longer hold a charge.

Care must be exercised when you try to “quickly” charge a nickel-cadmium (NiCd) cell or battery pack at a current density that approaches or exceeds one-third of its capacity (C/3). As the battery ...

Saft recently uncovered a 28-year-old HIP nickel cadmium (Nicd) battery still in service at a major telecommunications company in Texas. The normal lifetime of a Nicd battery, in a typically harsh ...