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Douglas de Lacey wrote:
Those claims have been refuted. Unless you 'recharge' the alkaline
long before it is exhausted. In which case there's little point in
using them given how cheap proper rechargeables are now. Unless you
need the 1.5 volts.


Hi, Dave, I was hoping someone would bite as I was never able to find
any hard data about them. My own experience was entirely heuristic: run
my radios till they stopped working, replace batteries with a recharged
set and recharge the dead ones. Worked fine for years. Remember this was
in the very, very early days of rechargeables, but I still have a coupla
alkalines still working after many recharges. Nowadays I agree there's
virtually no point.

I'd be interested in seeing a more scientific evaluation if you have a
reference lying to hand.

No - it was my memory of a Which test. They found if an alkaline was
discharged to the point where its performance had noticeably suffered - as
most do with any cell - it could only be recharged to a tiny percent of
its original capacity.

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