[volt-nuts] Old Weston cells

Joseph Gray jgray at zianet.com
Tue Aug 27 00:26:11 EDT 2013


I suspected that there was nothing to do to rejuvenate these old cells. I
thought I'd ask anyway.

Thanks.

Joe Gray
W5JG



On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:16 PM, zbigniew169 <zbigniew169 at gmail.com> wrote:

> All my knowledge regarding Weston Cells tells me that is not possible in
> any way :-((
>
>
> 2013/8/27 Joseph Gray <jgray at zianet.com>
>
> > I got my hands on a few very old, unsaturated cells. I figured that they
> > would be no good after all this time. Just out of curiosity, I measured
> > them on my 3457A, which hasn't been sent off for calibration yet.
> >
> > DMM was set to 3 V scale to keep the input impedance high. Room
> temperature
> > = 26 C.
> >
> > Cell #1 = 1.018288
> > Cell #2 = 1.018236
> > Cell #3 = 1.018224
> >
> > I read that when they get below 1.0183 V, they are no good. Is there any
> > (easy) way to rejuvenate these cells?
> >
> > Joe Gray
> > W5JG
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