In uk.d-i-y, Man at B&Q wrote:
On Oct 1, 4:02*am, Grimly Curmudgeon
wrote:
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember "Man at B&Q"
saying something like:



Personally I'd buy a cheap'n'nasty pair of batteries for a phone, as you
can't be sure the charger is any good. *

Indeed. All the ones I've seen have specific warnings against leaving
them on thecradle all the time. The batteries get slowly poached.

Takes ages to kill them, though.
My DECT handsets needed new AAA cells last year, after about four years
on the original puny ones.

We're on the second set of batteries in less than 6 years. BT branded
cordless phone. TBH ICBA to keep taking them off the cradle so the
batteries cook.

Our BT-branded cordless's batteries are still going strong after eight
and a half years of being on the cradle almost continuously.

Not trusting my memory as to how long I'd had those phones, I looked out
the receipt. John Lewis, March 2001. Price £179.99 each. [Gulp]

--
Mike Barnes