My charger arrived and I promptly set about using this fancy-dancy defibrillator on my JH600 patient (btw, I'm a paper-doc, not the MD variety, but hey - TIC - so I'll happily perform surgery).

I'll get around to describing R&R'ing the JH600 battery in another post (not as straight forward as one assumes, and I wish someone had covered the topic to prevent the numerous vernaculars I used getting it in/out).

The battery was totally brain dead ... but the charger worked its magic and brought it back to life. (I wonder if batteries see the long tunnel with a bright light at the end?)

As a sidenote, my sweety just redid our kitchen in stainless - including stainless countertops. Note to self (and others) - do NOT recharge a battery on stainless countertops, as tiny droplets of battery acid pop out of the cells and create little black dots on brand new stainless countertops - this most certainly will be followed by our sweeties teaching us several new Chinese vernaculars, in a somewhat raised voice.

Took about 12 hours to fully recharge - seems good as new.

I then recharged the XTR's tiny battery (almost wrist watch sized) in a mere 2 hours, but it was only in a coma, not completely dead. BTW, the XTR has the dumbest seat removal system I've ever seen.

Thanks again Mr Euph - I can always count on ya! Here's a pink treat, California-style ... as you may be a little homesick ...

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If you can't read it ... the script says "Hollywood" and I think those are Baywatch people (although, as a real biker, I've never watched the series)