Can anyone technical help with this strange puzzle. I bought a CD walkman thingy a month ago or so, and I bought a pile of batteries with it. I stuffed them in, expecting the batteries to run out fairly swiftly, however, the walkman has an option to plug itself in, which I do each day at work - plugging it in, is supposed to recharge the batteries (it claims that it has a safety mechanism built in for not charging non-rechargable batteries, which I seem to remember makes them explode). However, after a while I realized that my alkaline normal batteries in the walkman were not actually running out. So I checked how much power there was in them using the cunning little Duracell thingy on the side of them - and they were full, after countless hours of use, so the only explanation I can come up with is that the unit is recharging them somehow by day - which would seem unlikely given that they're not liquid batteries. I changed the batteries in it before going to London last week and used the walkman a lot on the train down and back up and stuff, I checked these batteries this morning before coming into work and they were half full, and after half a day of having it plugged in at work, they now claim to be full again. What's going on? Cheers, Keith. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ +---+ Brought to you by the Sinister mailing list +---+ To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". To unsubscribe send "unsubscribe sinister" or "unsubscribe sinister-digest" to "majordomo@majordomo.net". For list archives and searching, list rules, FAQ, poor jokes etc, see http://www.majordomo.net/sinister +---+ Nee, nee mun pish, chan pai dee kwa +---+ +----------------------------------------------------------------------+