Roger Korn wrote: > [snip] The advent of the digital camera has created suficient demand > that a new class of rechargeable is available at "reasonable" cost. NiMH > (Nickel Metal Hydride, or if you prefer, National Institutes for Mental > Health) batteries have about 50% more capacity than NiCads, and can be > recharged indefinitely at rates of up to .5C. For example, the capacity > of an AA NiMH is about 1400 maH (milliamp-hours) and can be recharged at > 700ma in about 2 hours. They live for over 1000 cycles and the cost has > got down to $2.50 each in qty 10 from mail-order sources. NiCad chargers > work fine with NiMH cells. Thanks to Roger, a partner in suffering-from-rainfall, for the NiMH info. The capacity increase over NiCads makes these attractive. In my VHF, ordinary NiCads will only provide about 30 - 45 minutes of transmit time, marginal for handling a typical emergency. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR over the hill from Roger -- on the *wetter* side of the Coast Range of Oregon *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.gasp-seakayak.net/paddlewise/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Dec 29 1998 - 08:51:32 PST
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