[Mike Betts]

A couple of references have been made to the "memory effect" of Ni-Cad batteries. I did a lot of research into this in the late 80's and can state that it simply does not exist.

Now before someone ups and quotes a university, technical or other "knowledgeable" source, I would ask you to read the sidebar article, Memory effect? No, voltage depression, in this article from EDN magazine. It does as good of a job of explaining the phenomenon in (almost) layman's terms.

The "memory effect" has been bantered about for so long (over 40 years) that it is accepted as fact by many very smart scientists and engineers. I had a devil of a time trying to explain this to my to management... But that's another story...

Regards,

Mike