Howdy all,
the sixfink is back after a summer full of work, extensive use of duraloops and the sad loss (theft?) of my EZAA which Boaz had sent me for my birthday. The neat little double-A nitecore has since been replaced by (drum roll) another one of Boaz's EZAA as I couldn't cope with one light less in my collection. A couple of projects are still waiting for my attention on the shelf, and you'll read more of that soon as I get more and more free time over the cold period of the year due to decreasing order situation, as usual.
Anyway, the reason for my posting is one of my XTAR 18700s. After I ran two of them flat to the ground (reading 0.09V on my Gossen Metrawatt) in my L2P/solarforce T6 single mode, I stored them carefully until I would buy a hobby charger. Not carefully enough, though - last night one of them rolled off the lowermost shelf of my cabinet, hitting the floor tiles. It fell from less than one foot, or less than 30 centimeters, for that matter - still enough to split the plastic foil covering on the back end, or negative terminal, which also houses the protection circuit.
The cell now reads 0.3V, but I am absolutely at loss what to do with it, fearing the circuit might have suffered any damage which could not only render the whole cell inoperative, but also posing a risk to recharge and use. Also, I don't really like the damaged protective covering.
question - what would you do?
thanks a lot (it's good to be back!),
Simon