Guy King wrote:
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Until Alkaline battery manufacturers state the Ampere hour capacity
on each
battery, I will believe that they are all the same and buy the cheapest
available.
Their argument against doing this is that the effective Ah rate of each
cell differs at different discharge rates and that comparing like with
like wouldn't be possible.

But doesn't the Ah rate of nicads vary in the same way?

Yes, but the NiMh market has gone the way of revealing it (though not
always with great accuracy). If a couple of primary cell makers would
start printing the figures on their cells it wouldn't be long before the
others followed.

Primary cell makers do disclose capacities. Just not for alkaline or
zinc carbon it seems. Lithium primary cells, which aren't that exotic
these days, often have capacity information available.


Tim
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Did I really still have that sig?