Re: (ET) Source small Ni-cads & NiMHs? Wholesale Club?

[JBR <reinharj frontiernet net>]

I have had good luck with Panasonic brand, I purchased in a kit from BJ's 
Wholesale Club (like Sam's - regional though).

The kit had a 4 slot quick charger, 6 AA batteries, and 2 AAA batteries, 
for 
under $20.  Then BJ's also had added 6 pack of the AA size only, for 
$12.99 
(I think).  These were the 2150 Milliamp Hour cells - NiMH.

Unfortunately, BJ's stopped carrying this kit, and now have a similar kit 
- 
Energizer Brand (no idea of quality).  

Recently bought a 4 pack of AA size NiMH 2000 mAH rated cells (I don't 
trust 
these to be real as much as I trusted Panasonic) on sale, for $4.99 (I 
think), from Harbor Freight.  Have not let them sit yet, to know how fast 
they self-discharge (which NiMH do MUCH faster than Ni-Cad).

Considering building a programmable battery discharge tester - with data 
logger - to test these cheap Harbor Freight cells.

An interesting thing is the the much larger C and D sizes of NiMH cells 
from 
Harbor Freight are only rated 1500 mAH, or so, when you would think they 
could be 3000 and 5000.

The Panasonic sub-C cells in my Panasonic Drill are rated 3500 mAH ! (of 
course, they cost $4 or $5 EACH).

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 7:17 am, tbamc wrote:
> A little off topic, but....
>
> Can anyone recommend a good brand/source/price for AAA through D cell
> Ni-cads and NiMHs?  I've got several brands of each but no idea how
> good/bad they are.  Recent GE NiMH's I got with their own charger seem
> really lousy--they're dead after sitting for just 2 weeks!
>
> Thanks.
>
> Thon
>
> _______________________________________________
> Elec-trak mailing list
> Elec-trak cosmos phy tufts edu
> https://cosmos.phy.tufts.edu/mailman/listinfo/elec-trak