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Why Batteries Need to be Reconditioned? Rechargeable batteries do NOT last forever. There are only so many times that you can charge and recharge them. First they start to lose power and you find that there is less and less usable time that you have before you must charge again. Some people have termed this the memory effect. The term "memory" basically is described as the battery "remembers" its usual discharge point and superficially "needs" a charge whenever it hits that point. In other words, if you have a NiCd that always gets discharged to only 50% of its capacity, it will eventually not run below that 50% mark if you ever wanted to discharge it to a lower point. In a new NiCd battery the active cadmium is present in finely divided crystals. The memory effect develops as these crystals grow and reduce the effective surface area of the cadmium. This results in voltage depression which leads to a loss in capacity. Advanced crystal formatio