Camera batteries for flashlights ?

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As a result if inheriting a number of camera batteries I was thinking of using them to power some "different shaped" flashlights. The issue is that I did not "inherit" a charger to go with them. Since I have Pila "intelligent" charger I was thinking of using that but the issue is that the camera batteries have 3 terminals. 1 +ve, 1 -ve and one unmarked between them.
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Anyone able to tell me how to charge this from the 2 terminal Pila charger.
Note: I'll be out of contact for the next week so will review this when I get back. Thanks in advance.
 
That's for the control circuitry.

Crack open the casing and rip the cell out; that has only two terminals and you won't have trouble charging it.
 
Thermistors alone are usually present in NiMH batteries. In my experience, LiIon ones always have circuitry in them.
Come to think of it, I can see no very good reason why the circuitry couldn't be in the phone/camera with only the thermistor in the actual battery casing, but every single phone/camera LiIon battery I've dismantled had circuitry in it.
 
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