The message
from Chris Hodges contains these words:

Are we still talking NiMHs here, or primary cells? I'd not use cheapie
primary cells for anything.

Primaries - at least I was, and assuming that was what you meant about
Aldi. Might have to go there if they've got NiMH that cheap.

Ah, no, I was talking about NiMHs, and yes, both Aldi and next week Lidl
have AAs at 4/£2. Lidl's are 2.1Ah.

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On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 22:10:28 +0000, Chris Hodges
wrote:

Dave Fawthrop wrote:
NiMhs are fine for regularly
used torches cameras, GPSs and other high current uses.

Funny you should say that, my Garmin doesn't like even freshly charged
NiMHs - you get ~3 hours life compared to a quoted 22 from alkalines. 1
walk instead of quite a few.

There is an option to change battery type in the menus of some of the
Garmin GPS's probably to reshape the voltage/capacity curve so the
battery meter works - but it might conceivably change the end cutoff
point. I've always used alkaline's in mine, you always know they are
going to work whereas with rechargeable's they can end up in any state
after being left for a few weeks.


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On Nov 8, 10:10 pm, Chris Hodges wrote:
Dave Fawthrop wrote:
NiMhs are fine for regularly
used torches cameras, GPSs and other high current uses.

Funny you should say that, my Garmin doesn't like even freshly charged
NiMHs - you get ~3 hours life compared to a quoted 22 from alkalines. 1
walk instead of quite a few.

It's probably designed to require the higher voltage of alkalines.

MBQ

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something
like:

In my (limited) experience, the key words in the PP's post are
"normally plugged in". I know someone who always used their laptop on
mains power. When they came to use it on battery after about a year,
it was next to useless.

Same here. My laptop ran quite happily on battery for at least two hours
time after time, so I know the battery was fine. Then it sat on mains
for months and the next time I came to use it on battery it was utterly
knackered - no charge at all could be put into it.

Now I need the laptop as a portable much more, I've bought a couple of
good batteries and am taking much more care of them; only letting them
charge up to full then removing them.



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Dave