Diode in NiCd pack - what is it?

If you've seen enough of these you would spot it at once, but there's no standard appearance. You can probably find pictures on the web.

Do you mean, completely light blue, without any bands? Do they have any printing or any kind of identification at all? And I'm afraid I don't know what an NTC resistor looks like anyway, sorry.

But I think what you've said - add one diode and 160 ohms, will probably do no harm - you'll hear it before it smokes! If your meters go way out of spec, pull the plug and call the experiment a success - you learned that _that_ didn't work! ;-)

Good Luck! Rich

On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 12:09:56 -0800, Rich Grise wrote (in article ):

It looks like a 1/8W flame-proof resistor: light blue body with resistor color-code bands.

Oh, then, sure - go for it. It's clearly either a temp sensor or some kind of offset compensation in the current sense line. Even if it doesn't work like we all want it to ( ;-) ), you're very probably not going to do any damage, and you'll have your meters on it, so you'll know if it's way off-base, in which case, just pull the plug.

Good Luck! Rich