In article ,
Jeff Liebermann wrote:

Sanyo Eneloop.
http://www.eneloop.info/home/performance-details/capacity.html
http://www.costco.com/Browse/Product.aspx?Prodid=11504514
http://www.eneloop.info/fileadmin/EDITORS/ENELOOP/DATA_SHEETS/HR-3UTGA_data_sheet.pdf
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=630534

LSD doesn't have lower capacity. It's roughly the same as other NiMH.

Interesting... one of Sanyo's pages shows different results. See

http://www.eneloop.info/home/perform.../capacity.html

They compare alkaline, Sanyo Eneloop, and the Sanyo "high capacity"
NiMH cells. The latter have a definite advantage in capacity, and the
terminal voltages under load look almost identical in the "100 mA
discharge" graph.

LSD NiMH batteries have a higher terminal voltage. The energy
capacity is the area under the discharge curve, which is close to
identical for types with the same chemistry. However, the higher
terminal voltage will cause the curve to drop earlier for the LSD
NiMH, so they appear to not last as long.

Hmmm... the graphs on the page cited above seem to suggest
differently... what do you think?

Are you running an electric airplane, using the battery pack to run a
glow plug, igniting a squib, or running telemetry electronics? All
would benefit from a switch to Li-Ion.

Nope... typical ham-radio handheld radio use (about 80% receive, 20%
transmit).

I do have several such radios which run on LiIon batteries. My
preferred "field assignment" radio is still a NiCd/NiMH type... with
the auxiliary six-AA-cell battery pack, and a bunch of charged
Imedions and some alkaline AA cells as last-ditch backup, I could be
deployed for a couple of days before I'd be in immediate need of a
recharge.

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