Battery Score 5

The last UHP65 cell went on the charger yesterday. Every cell I charged reacted the same to the charge regime, taking the same number of hours to come up to a terminal voltage of ~1.600 volts. This tells me that they are all either good, or all exactly the same amount of ruined. Only a load test will tell.

Here's the last cell on the left, with one of it's fellows after cleaning and charging. Yes, external cosemetics don't count for much, it's the chemical reaction inside the battery that matters, but at least there won't be cigarette butts all over the tops when I recycle them...

Now to finish off the Mil Spec cells. They are in bad shape, many of them have cracked tops from rough handling and stress on the terminals, and spew electrolyte when charged, the internal pressure escaping through the cracks. Jury is still out on whether or not I'll get ten useful cells out of the 24 I was given.

Just started charging the Alcad VB4 cells, which I have not been able to find any information on whatsoever. I expected that these cells were in a charged state, and the first one came up to 1.600 volts after about 4 hours of charging. Wish I had 24 more of them instead of the Mil Spec cells...