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Subject: Re: Rechargeable batteries

Author: Albert Silver

Date: 19:13:14 02/21/02

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On February 21, 2002 at 19:41:38, Roy Eassa wrote:

>On February 21, 2002 at 13:51:41, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>>>when i play, after 2 tournament games (the palm is overclocked)
>>>>the accu cells are risky to use. i change to the next one.
>>>>
>>>>and - have still ONE pair in my pocket ...
>>>>
>>>>2 pairs are a little dangerous. also when you play with pair 1
>>>>and pair 2 is loaded, and suddenly pair 1 gives up, what to do ??
>>>>
>>>>no - 3 pairs IMO minimum. and the charger of course.
>>>
>>>I will add a couple of things on this as I use NiMH batteries fro my digital
>>>camera. First of all you can get much greater storage space than 700 mAh. I
>>>recently bought a set of 4 batteries with 1500 mAh storage, but I have seen 1800
>>>mAh ones for sale also now. I also use the speed charger by PowerHaus and have
>>>been very satisfied with it, so instead of 12 hours to recharge the miserable
>>>little things, it now takes 1-2 hours. A good place to find out more information
>>>on rechargeable batteries and to buy them is http://www.greenbatteries.com
>>>
>>
>>
>>If anyone reading this knows little about recharegeable batteries, let me just
>>add that not only can you recharge them some 500-1000 times, but once charged
>>they last at least 5-10 TIMES more than the best alkaline on the market. So
>>we're talking major savings.
>>
>>                                          Albert
>
>
>
>By "once charged they last at least 5-10 TIMES more than the best alkaline," do
>you mean that EACH time they are charged they last 5-10 times as long as
>brand-new alkaline batteries (until requiring the next charge)?

That is correct.

            Albert



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