As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 19, 2003
                                                    Registration No. 33-86672


                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549

                            POST-EFFECTIVE AMENDMENT
                                       TO
                                    FORM S-8
                             REGISTRATION STATEMENT
                                      UNDER
                           THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933


                             C&D TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

            Delaware                                  13-331459
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(State or other jurisdiction of            (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
 incorporation or organization)

   1400 Union Meeting Road
   Blue Bell, Pennsylvania                              19422
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(Address of Principal Executive Offices)               (Zip Code)



                          CHARTER POWER SYSTEMS, INC.
                                STOCK OPTION PLAN
                              (Full title of plan)


                                 Linda R. Hansen
                       Vice President and General Counsel
                             C&D Technologies, Inc.
                             1400 Union Meeting Road
                       Blue Bell, Pennsylvania 19422-0858
                     (Name and address of agent for service)

                                 (215) 619-7817
                     (Telephone number, including area code,
                              of agent for service)


                                    Copy to:
                            John W. Kauffman, Esquire
                                Duane Morris LLP
                             4200 One Liberty Place
                      Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-7396
                                 (215) 979-1000








                          DEREGISTRATION OF SECURITIES

     Pursuant to a Form S-8  Registration  Statement  (File No.  33-86672)  (the
"Registration  Statement") filed with the Securities and Exchange  Commission on
November 23, 1994, C&D  Technologies,  Inc. (the  "Company"),  formerly known as
Charter Power Systems, Inc., registered 1,400,000 shares of its common stock, as
calculated on a post-split  basis, to be reserved for issuance under the Charter
Power  Systems,  Inc.  Stock  Option  Plan.  As of October 31,  2003, a total of
260,420 shares of common stock of the shares  registered  under the Registration
Statement were sold.

     Pursuant  to the  undertakings  included  in  Item  9 of  the  Registration
Statement and as required by Item 512 of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act of
1933, the Company hereby deregisters and removes from registration the 1,139,580
shares registered under Registration Statement that remain unsold.










                                   SIGNATURES

     Pursuant to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act of 1933 and Rule 478
thereunder,  the Registrant  certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe
that it meets all of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused
this Post-Effective  Amendment to the Registration Statement to be signed on its
behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania
on November 19, 2003.


                                           C&D TECHNOLOGIES, INC.


                                       By:/s/ Stephen E. Markert, Jr.
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                                              Stephen E. Markert, Jr.,
                                              Vice President - Finance and Chief
                                              Financial Officer