Re: (ET) Source for small Ni-cads and NiMHs?

["Dave & Deb" <daveb drizzle com>]

about that c-cell in the D-cell pkg... I have some old Everready NiCd like 
that. 
I cut one open wondering why it rattled and felt a little too light for a 
D-cell.
Now if I'm buying batts in a store I shake 'em, if it feels like it 
rattles (i
can't hear) I don't buy it.  If it feels too light to be real I don't buy 
it
either.


>
> ALL nimh's have a lousy retention of charge, a superhigh self discharge
> rate.  30 days seems to be max on them.   That's why portable electric
> tool  manufacturers switched out of the new 'miracle technology' nimh's
> back to Nicads (and BTW the newer nicads seem to have solved the genre's
> great drawback - memory).
> I get my AAA nicads from Harbor Freight. Pretty cheap. So far they've
> been good.  But due to their lower E are not so good in digital cameras.
> They actually play longer on the CD walkman than freshly charged NIMHs.
> Phooey on hype and printed specifications.
>
> As to both types;  weigh em on a sensitive scale.  The heavier they are
> the better and longer lasting before recharge they are.
>
> As to older portable tool powerpacks.  It may be that only one battery in
> the pack is causing the 'weak pack' symptom.  Take the pack apart, test
> the cells individually.  Solder in a new one in place of the bad one.
> Older nicads tend to short through.  Have done this many times, and if
> the charger's still good, you're in businss.   Source of those ''extra'
> nicads?   Why, the town's battery recycle dump behind the town barn.
> There's plenty of old power tool packs in there and it don't even have to
> be the same brand.  When you are there. pick up several old packs as
> internally, the cells are not all of the same physical size.
>
> Dave
> Weymouth MA
>
>
>
> On Wed, 13 Sep 2006 06:17:11 -0500 tbamc <tbamc gbta net> writes:
>> 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
>>
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