[quote=“wad67, post:25, topic:3214”]You can actually recharge non rechargeable batteries(at times with dire circumstance). I do it all the time, they probably have reduced lifespan and such, and while charging they typically hiss and occasionally get hot.
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Excellent trolling, but in all seriousness… technical yes, practical no. Sure, it’s possible to ‘recharge’ an alkaline (non-rechargeable) battery with the right equipment… but you don’t get much charge out of the process, and the resulting batteries are very weak, and likely to leak (a mess which can damage your devices) or explode (more damage, plus possibly setting fire to your house). And, of course, you need a reliable source of electricity to run a charger of any kind, much less a shady alkaline charger.
This makes it a bad idea IRL, but a fun idea in-game. If you had a homemade jury-rigged battery charger made of scrap and wires, running off an equally jury-rigged electrical source… say, hunks of scrap metal attached to wires sitting in a bucket of acid (what the ‘batteries’ currently made in-game would actually look like, based on the recipe)… then you probably would get bad effects like this, no matter how ‘chargeable’ they are. ‘Bad effects’ here meaning either very slow charge rate and a partial charge cycle (if the power is too low), or degradation of battery quality and possible physical damage to the battery (if the power is too high). And, of course, a battery abused in this way might leak or explode, for additional fun.
