guy_threepwood

I’m selling these fine leather jackets…

I would have suggested Farnell but apparently they got bought out by an American company in 2016.

In the UK we have “JRC Global Buffet” which is almost exactly what you describe. It’s…not great. I went because, like you, some friends were particularly enamoured with the place for some reason.

I wasn’t a fan.

I’d go even lower, maybe 50mA. The main issue you’re fighting is internal resistance, which will cause things to heat up. Your other issue is that I’ve averaged things, however it’s quite likely that one or more cells has a significantly lower voltage than others (and therefore a higher resistance) so can cause more risk.

If you’re able to get the pack apart and measure the cells separately that will help a lot

Yes

I am assuming that 18v is 5 cells in series, with a nominal voltage of 3.7 x 5 = 18.5 volts. At 15.22 each cell is around 3 volts. 3 volts is usually considered the absolute minimum you can discharge cells to. (3.3v is considered flat) If it won’t charge, it’s probably dead.

It might be possible to rig up a charger to very very slowly charge the battery up to about 3.3 volts, at which point the proper charger might agree to fully charge the battery, but with the cells already below 3.3v there’s a good chance it won’t work even if you did that. And it’s not without risks.

I find it sad that we can’t switch back to the “old” autocorrect. The options are this annoying new version…or nothing. I tried living with nothing for a while and it’s not great.

The comment about new trains and old signalling is a bit weird, since on the Piccadilly they’re just adjusting signal positions so they can see them clearly from the new train cabs.

That said, there is a signal control upgrade in progress on the Bakerloo which will likely provide a little bit of uplift potential. On the Piccadilly they are planning to run 27tph with manual signals once they have the new rolling stock, since that has had the same control system upgrade a few years ago. That is getting to the limit of the signalling though.

And generated a fuck tonne of UV, so….don’t look at it with your remaining eye.

These really annoy me. I used to spend a lot of time in Sweden so I tried pretty hard to get an account set up to let me pay by swish. I gave up. If you’re not a resident you can’t get a person number so you can’t get a bank ID so you can’t use swish.

What is frustrating is that lots of places I went required swish and wouldn’t take cash or card, so I ended up having to get other people to pay for me.

I bet many other systems in other countries are similar

I’d say that’s a bit late