[bookport] Re: rechargeable batteries, another option

  • From: "Scott Howell" <n3byy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bookport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:12:48 -0500

Folks,

Ok my original post was to inform you of another lesser priced option to 
the RS charger. So we don't get to carried away with this thread, we all 
know these will work with some degree of measurement performance issues.
That all aside, I will tell you and I've already tried this, I put the 
Radio Shack batteries in the Energizer charger and it charged them fine. 
You do what you want, but I only wanted to share another alternative and 
to be honest I a m not sure how the Radio Shack charger differs from 
others of its type. My batteries did not blowup, did not take overnight 
to charge, and were not the same batteries that came with the unit. 
Now whether Radio Shack's batteries and charger are proprietary, I can 
only assume so based on what I was told, but it would seem that the 
Energizer charger is not proprietary only as it worked for the batteries 
I put in it. Maybe I'll do some voltage measurements to see if they are 
getting a full charge and keeping it or what. I can only tell you what 
was told to me by the Energizer folks via the phone with the disclaimer 
they would preferr you only use their batteries in the unit.
It worked for me, but your millage may vary. Good luck

>This whole issue of proprietary quick-charge batteries is beginning to
>concern me. We now have at least two--the Ray-O-Vac and the Energizer--and
>I'd be very surprised if either brand of proprietary batteries will charge
>in the other proprietary charger. While both chargers will handle normal
>NIMh cells, I'd bet that each proprietary battery is designed differently
>and that the results could be, as they say in the technology biz,
>unpredictable if you were to put Energizer batteries into the Ray-O-Vac
>charger or vice-versa. The best case scenario would be that the batteries
>would take overnight to charge. The worst case would be that the batteries
>would be destroyed internally or possibly even explode. I hope that once
>people start using these quick-charge batteries, they remember to always use

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