On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 04:42:16 -0500, Glenn McCorkle wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> Sorry to contradict you but.......
> Just 'cause it's 3.6v.... don't mean it has-to-be Ni-Cad.
> The TL-5135 and TL-5186 are both 3.6v "lithium wafer cells".
> http://baber.com/baber/products/computer_clock_batteries.htm
> And this photo looks nothing like the Ni-Cad you describe.
> http://www.baber.com/baber/gifs/laptopgifs/tl51.jpg
> Learn sometin' new every day, don't we?<vbg>
Yes, we sure do. I'll have to check out the URL. I have always had
the understanding that it is an "immutable physical property" of a true
lithium cell to characteristically have 3 volts. Perhaps the "lithium
wafer cells" you speak of are not "true" lithium cells. I will check
out the URLs now.
OK, I just now came back on line and checked them out. I'm unable to tell
if the battery looks like the one I described, because of the view angle,
being either from the bottom or the top of the stack of cells. Sorry about
my description in which I said "annular ripples around the circumference of
the plastic tube". In this context the word "annular" could have been
interpreted either as a "repetitive redundancy", or the context might have
been confused with the concept of concentricity, as in "annular rings"
seen in a cross-section of a tree or log. I knew what I meant, but now I
know I didn't say it right. Even the best of us sometimes have problems
along those lines.
Sam Heywood
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