Re: Battery question.
"anon" <[email protected]>
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"Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > anon wrote: >> "Borgholio" <[email protected]> wrote in message >> news:[email protected]... >> >>>anon wrote: >>> >>>>*** >>>>If you are looking for a LARGE capacity D cell, try the industrial >>>>size - these weigh ONE-QUARTER OF A POUND each. >>>> >>>>I had ten of these suckers in series and when I accidentally shorted >>>>them the current burned the insulation off of the wire that did it - >>>>these are upward of one amp capacity for a long time. >>>> >>>>You may have to do a little searching to find these but they are the >>>>kind that are used in the hazardous vapor 'sniffers' that the haz mat >>>>people use. (That unit uses six *matched* batteries (if one battery goes >>>>bad, replace all of them.) >>>> >>> >>>Well if they're re-charagable, I'll get some of them. :) >> >> >> *** >> Yes, but these were NiCad's with the memory problems. >> >> BTW I have found a method of curing the memory, shorts, and other >> problems with the NiCads. I fixed up a 'bench' that allowed me to reverse >> charge the batteries with voltage well over 20 volts, I would cycle the >> battery with normal/reverse for a few seconds each and after 'maybe' a >> half dozen tries the battery would act normal (the voltage would peak out >> at 5 - 10 volts - probably burned out the short with the high voltage >> pressure) and then would take a normal charge (and work for a long time >> normally.) >> >> I see in your later posts that you found the better answer (not NiCads) >> to your problem. >> >> I guess the *industrial* opened the idea door. >> > > True industrial batteries won't work in normal chargers / devices. But > they have non-industrials with the stanard button top that have almost 12k > mAH. I'll be getting some very soon. :) ** These said "industrial" on the side and looked like the standard D batteries - that was what fit he sniffer. They were just heavy and high capacity. Radio shack has some large capacity Ds but I don't think they quite as large as the above. -- A SpamCop user and forum reader, Not Admin ***