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It sounds like you have nickel-cadmium batteries, since 7.2 volts is an integral multiple of 1.2 volts. You should notcharge a nickel-cadmium battery with any charger that is not specifically designed for it. The issue is that overcharging these batteries will damage them, and that the battery voltage alone is not enough to determine state of charge. (You have to measure the slope of the voltage, and detect the inflection point which occurs at full charge. This is a very specific thing, so the battery must be matched to the charger.)

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Well you can and you can't the reason can is because it will just charge the can't is that it will only charge to 7.2 volt then it becomes a 7.2 battery.

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