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Subject: 
Re: Rechargeable Battery question.
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Sat, 1 Feb 2003 17:40:07 GMT
Original-From: 
PeterBalch <(PeterBalch@compuserve)stopspammers(.com)>
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Ken

rechargeable battery pacs
used in certain electric tooth brushes?  They recharge in a cradle,
they seem to have a coil of wire in the base unit and in the toothbrush,
and it's basically a transformer.

Any idea what sort of power could be transferred?

Let's pull some imaginary figures out of the air...

A toothbrush might use 500 watt seconds to clean your and your spouse's
teeth and is left to charge for 12 hours. That's a charging rate of about
12mW. An RCX holds, say, 9 watt hours. At 12mW, it would require 4 weeks to
recharge.

Or have I got my figures wrong?

Peter



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