Sorry to say, but you are a lost soul on the matter. As soon as you pull YOUR batteries out of the charger they start losing charge just like a "regular" nimh battery starts losing charge.
The difference with yours is that after a MONTH yours have about 10% more charge than a regular battery would but YOURS or a regular nimh would both have way less than a full charge. The main advantage of YOURS is that after 3-6-9 months they hold charge much better but after one month they are only 10$ better but STILL partially discharged. By keeping mine tricking in charger till I need them, MINE have a FULL CHARGE WHEN I NEED TO USE THEM. the only advantage of yours is if you go many months without chargeing them, for the first month - its only 10 PERCENT less discharge, thats not much dude, that aint a "game changer", thats minor performance difference. And to those who say they charge batteries and leave em in there rarely used cameras for months before they get to them, its not only not recommended in the event of a cell failure/leakage, its a totally different applicaion, for those situations you are probably better off using alkalines, they are cheap nowadays. JC O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Charles Robinson Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 9:23 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: rechargeable batteries - any wisdom? On Dec 22, 2008, at 19:07, Bruce Walker wrote: > > With the low self-discharge I can charge the Eneloops, pop them into > the camera and then forget about them until the low-batt indicator > appears. I stuff everything into my kit-bag until I need it -- even > if several weeks go by before I suddenly need to grab the bag and > dash out somewhere to shoot. I never worry at all about whether I > charged up batteries the night before. > That's precisely their benefit. None of this "oh, wait, leave 'em in the trickle-charger so they're ready to go" nonsense which other batteries require. Instead: charge 'em and throw them in the bag. Leave the bag in the hallway for one or two weeks: it doesn't matter. Pick up bag, start shooting: No problem. At $11.99 for a set of 4, well worth the dough. Regardless of chemistry. Could be stuffed with rat poop for all I care, it just doesn't matter to me. -Charles -- Charles Robinson - charl...@visi.com Minneapolis, MN http://charles.robinsontwins.org -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
