Q:Hello. I am working on a project with a friend and will be wiring together many different colored led's together for a costume we are making.I am pretty good with soldering and thought this would be a fun project but we are looking for a battery pack we can buy that has different modes that you can switch too. So the lights flash or do other cool patterns.Is there something like this?Thanks!! :)

Battery packs don't have different modes. What you are looking for is some sort of control circuit. There are thousands to be found. Of those, maybe a few hundred would be something that you might be able to use. The hardest part will be choosing the best one for your purposes.

Q:I live in Akron Ohio and would like to dispose of the old battery pack. Anyplace around here to recycle?Joe

There should be an 800 number to call printed on a sticker on the HV battery itself. I however would first make it known that you have an old pack laying around by posting on Priuschat and similar forums as someone might want it for spare modules or just to toy around with and might pay more for it than the $200 that Toyota offers.

Q:How do you make your own battery pack?

Put a few batteries in series, is a group of three batteries, each group of voltage 3,6 V

Q:I play my Xbox close to the system, and during game play my controller turns off while my batteries are fully charged.

Maybe while ur playing u keep moving the battery case on the controller it is rlly sensitive so bkerful when ur playing it is rlly sensitive

Q:all of a sudden the battery packs arent working i charged them up and i put it in the controller and my controller blinks green but does not connect and i tried syncing it and it still didnt work and i kno it is the battery pack bc i used regular batteries on the controller and it still worked so any advice in what to do or if u had this problem tell me how u fixed it

Xbox 360 Charging Station

Q:I have a Build-A-Bear Rudolph from holiday seasons last year. He's in a pretty good condition, but he does have some problems. His nose is supposed to light up, but it doesn't despite replacing the batteries,so the whole system might need a replacement. Also, his head is stuffed at an angle that looks kinda weird. I know Build-A-Bear does repairs, but can they do all that without cost? If so, do they still have the equipment to fix the battery pack?

Rudolph Build A Bear

Q:I let my irresponsible-as-hell little sister borrow my 360 so she could watch a DVD. (I'm never doing that again btw), and low and behold, the battery pack thing that goes in the back of the controller is gone. I know you can't play it with just batteries and tape, but I sure as hell ain't gonna dish out 50$ for another controller (which is ridiculous btw), so is there anywhere I can buy another one of those battery pack things to use with the controller, and if so, how much do they cost?

Either you can buy a cheap battery pack, or I found a useful method. If you have an Xbox 360 charger for the controller, try plugging it in even without the battery pack, I found that it works fine. I use this method when I lose my battery packs.

Q:I was wondering how long these batteries would last in the new camera I was going to buy. If it doesn't have at least a 2 hour life then I wont buy it.

That's not really a question anyone can answer. When anyone, a company or otherwise tries to give battery life, the answer is always estimate, usually over estimated, and reflects optimum usage patterns etc. If you can find them, look for Sanyo AA Eneloops, which are superior, and hold their charge for a -long- time, whereas NiMH batteries lose 80% of charge after a month roughly.

Q:I have a Dewalt battery pack (DW0242) for a sawsall that I want to rebuild/convert from nicd to nimh.

I doubt it. You would need to modify the device and charger to work with the battery.

Q:I have a 1/16th scale blaze rc buggy and I'm wondering what is the minimum it needs to charge so it is fully charged? I usually leave it overnight to charge which is somewhere between 8 and 12 hours. I want to be able to ride it twice a day at least at full charge. So how long?

Most rechargers have an indicator light when a battery is fully charged. On average most nickel metal hydride batteries only need several hours to fully charge depending on capacity and charger strength.