Readers had a variety of suggestions for the best way to upgrade/replace/recycle the old NiCd battery pack from a still-usable Makita drill. I asked the folks at battery pack designer Nexergy to read ...

Fans of the Makita Ni-Cd battery will be devastated to learn it has been discontinued by the power tools maker, but what ...

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 ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. When cordless power tools initially became mainstream, their batteries were made of nickel cadmium (NiCd). One of their biggest limitations is ...

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 ...

This NiCd battery Charger can charge up to 7 NiCd batteries connected in series. This number can be increased if the power supply is increased with 1.65V for each supplementary battery. If Q2 is ...