On Tue, 25 Sep 2001, Brendan wrote: > ... NIMH will loose a charge in a few days and be dead in a month.
This is not correct. Even though Alkaline and Lithium are much better for long term storage, NiMH isn't quite as bad as you stated for short term storage. The discharge rate also depends on the storage temperature. Using Kodak Photolife 1600mAh NiMH rechargeable batteries as an example, storing at 25 degree celsius, it retains about 75% of its original charge after about 27 days. So it still has around 1200mAh left (1600 x 0.75). One should note that 1200mAh is still equal or more than older generation of NiMH batteries and quite a bit more than NiCd batteries - and it's far from "being dead in a month" :-) At a storage temperature of 40 degree celsius, it would have dropped to approx 65% of its charge in about 27 days. You can check out the specs and the discharge curve here: http://www.kodak.com/global/plugins/acrobat/en/consumer/products/batteries/KAAHR.pdf -- --Lawrence Kwan--SMS Info Service/Ringtone Convertor--PGP:finger/www-- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.vex.net/~lawrence/ -Key ID:0x6D23F3C4-- - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
