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Re: Battery options?
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:57:25 GMT
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Curt Mills, WE7U <hacker@tc.+antispam+fluke.com>
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On Mon, 14 Jun 1999, Steve Wall wrote:
> I was wondering what are my options for the HB battery. Would it be
> possible for me to get 2 battery holders each carrying 4 cells each
> and fill them with regular NiCad cells say, The one's they have at
> radio shack? Would this be a viable options to the NiCad pack that
> the parts list specifies, This component is quite costly to order to
> canada. Has anybody else done such a thing?
Should work fine. If you use the "Zap" charge mode, make sure the
NiCad's are designed to work on fast charging. Some are, some aren't.
Also, make sure you buy them and dispose of them as a set. If you
start mixing and matching NiCad's, you'll often end up shorting the
ones that are of less capacity (less capacity due to age, number of
charge/discharge cycles, etc).
Be careful about putting alkaline's in by mistake. You might have
leakage, outgassing, or possibly a battery explosion if you try to
run the charger on them, and the voltage is higher out of an alkaline
cell than a NiCad as well.
Curt Mills, WE7U hacker.NO_*SPAM@tc.fluke.com
Senior Methods Engineer/SysAdmin
"Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
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