So, Danny rang me back shortly after I sent the e-mail to confirm the parts list, and I just ordered them. I thought I’d been exceptionally lucky getting Jejy back on the road, that’s now been retracted. 2 painfully expensive new cylinders have been ordered for her. And just the one for Vixy, who’s had one done already. Tyres will have to wait. They’re legal, and I’ll swap two of the new tyres (the rears) from Jejy, so they’ll both have good front tyres. The back ones will just have to be not as nice as I’d like. They’re legal, and that’ll have to be good enough.
Later, later I shall get decent tyres for both cars.
Perhaps by then 145/80 R14s will have been produced at a price I can afford.
Anyhow, now, I know that voltage-depression is the correct term for what I think of as Memory Effect, but voltage depresson or memory effect or whatever you want to call it, clearly my NiMH’s have got it up the wazoo, or indeed up to any stupidly named place. Now variously people say ‘discharge them completely’ or ‘Do not, under any circumstances, discharge them completely’. But the ‘do not dischargers’ appear to have no real fix for voltage depression, and since my batteries are completely useless in their current state (I got 6 photos out of the camera with them in), then I thought I might as well try discharging them completely. The cost of building a discharger is about £1 (my dad used to have one of a similar design (i.e. some bulb holders and some battery holders and some 1.2v bulbs)) and it did help the NiCds, but I’m not sure if it’ll help the NiMHs, being completely different chemistry’n’all. If it works then the occasional discharge cycle can be appied to all my dying NiMH, if it doesn’t, I’ve wasted a quid. Darn.
At any rate, this was all just a long intro to some pictures of Vixy.
