On 15/08/07, David Savage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Someone on another forum was discussing the pros & cons of AA NiCads & > proprietary lithium batteries in camera gear, and the boneheaded > camera store clerk who was telling them that proprietary lithium > batteries are better than AA's. They made the following statement: > > "Canon: 720mAh [lithium] > Standard AA NiCAD: 2500mAh each. > > The Oly takes 4 AA's so that's 10,000mAh for the Oly, 720 for the Canon." > > That sounded wrong to me, but not being too sure (and feeling too lazy > to google it) I thought I'd make use of the wisdom <cough> of the > PDML's members.
He knows not of what he speaks. The general measures of a battery are terminal voltage and storage capacity, the equally important things like internal resistances and internal leakage are generally only available if you search through manufacturers literature. So apart from the fact that he had the basic physics all stuffed up (as other posters have highlighted) it's impossible to draw any conclusions as to which is best for what application unless many parameters about the cells and load device are known. -- Rob Studdert HURSTVILLE AUSTRALIA Tel +61-2-9554-4110 UTC(GMT) +10 Hours [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://picasaweb.google.com/distudio/PESO http://home.swiftdsl.com.au/~distudio//publications/ Pentax user since 1986, PDMLer since 1998 -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
