> I used to work for one of the major battery producers in their R&D facility 
> and because I am rampantly curious, asked many questions

You sound like me!

> This is a long-winded explanation that says, if you assemble a 90V cell, use 
> the chemistry they did back then with the type of cells they used back then,

There is some data lying around.  A NEDA 204 (IEC 60F40, Eveready 490) 90V 
battery, uses 60 #135 cells (LeClanche-Manganese Dioxide) in series.  
Unfortunately, I don't know the specs on an F40 or #135 cell, so I don't know 
the milliamp-hour capacity.  Here's some data I found:

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/490.pdf

Exell make an alkaline version of this battery (for $34.50), but they don't 
seem to offer any specs on it.  Perhaps I'll ask them.

Data on the "skinny" 90V battery I had is even more scarce.  It's a NEDA 214 
(Eveready 479).  I don't have an IEC code and I don't know what kind of cells 
it was built out of (I'm guessing something like their 140mAh #118 cells or 
200mAh #118P cells).  I took it apart, and it was physically just ten 9V 
rectangular batteries in series, all in a cardboard wrapper with snap terminals 
on top.

Have any clues or data on these old 90V batteries?

Apparently, Union Carbide/Eveready still makes the old 455 (NEDA 202) 45V 
550mAh B battery (30 #130 cells):

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/455.pdf

And a few folks still offer the monster 510V NEDA 741 (Eveready 497) photoflash 
battery, composed of a whopping 336 #118 cells in series!

http://data.energizer.com/PDFs/497.pdf

I think I'm a battery geek.

- John

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