# Is My Electric Razor Dead?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 18, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-electric-razor-dead/364956 "2006-07-18T01:53:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dpimi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9dc877/32.png) [@Dpimi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dpimi)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-electric-razor-dead/364956/1 "2006-07-18T01:53:33Z")

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I have a Norelco Razor about a year old. Worked great. A few days ago it needed to be recharged so I plugged it in to be recharged. It was one of those razors that can’t run on a power cord, you have to recharge it.

I left it overnight to recharge and noticed in the morning I left the razor in the “on” position. So I assumed it didn’t take the recharged.

I turned it to the off position and let it charge. The red light lights up to indicate it is charging. But 12 hours later. Still no charge.

So I uncharged it thinking maybe the battery needed to be discharged, so for 24 hours I left it in the “on” position. Then I tried to recharge it. The manual says, when not used in a month or more it may need 24 hours of charging.

Still nothing.

Any suggesitons what to do? The red light does come on when I plug it in indicating it is (at least according to the light) charging.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2006, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-my-electric-razor-dead/364956/2 "2006-07-18T02:19:27Z")

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Your batteries are probably dead. Shavers and clippers take a lot of juice, and they _will_ eventually destroy rechargeable batteries.  
Lots of places will [sell you replacement batteries.](http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Norelco+Razor%22+batteries&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official)  
If you don’t want to wait, and you’re handy with a soldering gun, you can just buy some regular rechargeables and wire them up to fit your shaver. That’s what I do with my battery powered trimmer.