On Dec 29, 6:25 pm, "Tinwings" wrote:
Being the incurably curious type, I decided to test this theory.
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...you will be using less than one thousanth of the good battery's
capacity to charge the "dead" battery.

Holy cow!! Blasphemy!!!!

We can't have people posting empirical evidence complete with a
complete description of the experiment messing up our continuing
propagation of "old wives' tales" in this group.

Seriously, thanks for doing the experiment and reporting the results
here. Perhaps now we can close out the power switch discussion once
and for all. Naaaah, I'm sure it will come back.

-Tom