Ok, I did the deed and shocked my battery packs back to service. I used the batteries on a golf cart for the power source, as the optimum voltage is 36 volts, and the golf cart has 6 - 6volt batteries (36 volts). The trick is to only hold the connection for a few seconds and check the battery pak voltage.
You are looking for 1 - 1.5 volts (max) above the battery pak rated voltage. ANd all you have to do is burn out the 'whiskers' (shorts between the plates, which does not take long with a high voltage and amperage source. On one of the battery paks, I held it for about 5 seconds and checked voltage, it was 19.1! I should have stopped there, but curiousity got the best of me, so I did it another few seconds, and voltage jumped to 20.3. OK, a little does a little bit of good, a lot does a lot of good, right? I did it again, the voltage jumped to 21.1. Battery pak was still cool, so I tried it one more time, and just as I was fixing to pull the connection, one of the cells in the pak blew out.
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It sounded like a firecracker, and the pak shook a little, but that was it. No exterior damage to the battery case. I had to leave, but plan to open it tomorrow and check it out.
Will probably buy another cell and solder it back in. I finally read my Resurrection Guide only to find out that this technic only works with NiCad cells. I'm pretty sure all of my Dewalt Plus batteries are NiMH. I still have a couple of solid black packs which I'm sure are still NiCad, but I wouldn't have purchased this guide if I'd known I could only resurrect a couple of my batteries. What a bummer! Steve Dewalt doesn't make any NIMH batteries that I know of, never heard of a 'Dewalt plus' battery.
Only thing I've seen in an 'XRP+' which is a NICAD. In fact all Dewalt batteries that I've ever seen are NICAD. With the exception if the new 'Nano' batteries which are Lithium Ion. Chick, you better be very careful with that cell that exploded, cadmium is HIGHLY TOXIC. I would suggest you do some home-work on that and proceed with caution. Fobiaibof, I resurrected a 14.4v Dewalt that had been sitting (dead) on my bench for 6 months. Inazuma Eleven Strikers 2012 Xtreme Ita.
It actually had about 1/2 a volt left in it. I jumped started it with a 18v battery (fully charged) for about 5 seconds at a time till it was reading about 16V( check the voltage after every jolt). I put it in the charger & it took forever to charge fully, but it has been working like a new battery every since. I have dine the same thing with a 18v using four 6v lattern batteries wired in series to total 24volts.