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Re: Rechargable batteries
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Date: 
Mon, 23 Oct 2000 14:41:02 GMT
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I use Ray-O-Vac Rechargeable Alkaline batteries and their special charger in
my RCX with great results.  I only seem to recharge them every few weeks and
then they have lots left in them.  The charger seems to charge each (of 4)
individually, the charge lights go out as each reaches completion.

For my digital camera I use Kodak brand NiMh batteries and their special
charger, also with very good results.  But I would not use them in my RCX
because the voltage range is too low, similar to NiCads.

For my Palm, I DO NOT use rechargeables;  I use AAA disposable alkalines and
change them once a month.

Jerry

In lugnet.robotics, Juergen Stuber writes:
fozztexx@pez.fullsystem.com (Chris Osborn) writes:

I've read a lot of posts about the EverReady Renewals, and to be
honest, I have to really wonder if they are anything special or not.

AFAIK they are built more robust, to tolerate the charging better,
while chemically they are the same.
That said, my experience with AAA renewals (the german Müller system)
for my Palm III was not good.  Even with an expensive intelligent charger
and avoiding deep discharge carefully, they exploded and/or started
leaking.  With the cheap weak charger that I had at first they were
not charged well and voltage plummeted under load, causing crashes.

Nowadays I use only rechargable NiMH (Lego, Palm, digital camera)
with a charger that discharges before charging, and that works well.

Jürgen



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  Re: Rechargable batteries
 
I have also used the Ray-O-Vac Renewals in the RCX. Unfortunately, I have not had good luck with them. They seem to work fine in the RCX, but recharging them (in the Ray-O-Vac charger specially intended for the Renewals, model PS1) invariably causes (...) (24 years ago, 23-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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(...) AFAIK they are built more robust, to tolerate the charging better, while chemically they are the same. That said, my experience with AAA renewals (the german Müller system) for my Palm III was not good. Even with an expensive intelligent (...) (24 years ago, 22-Oct-00, to lugnet.robotics)

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