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- From: tso@cephalo.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Dan Ts'o)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Re: Nickel Hydride Batteries
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- Date: 30 Jul 1992 21:01:18 GMT
- References: <DAN.92Jul22175414@dynasty.dyndata.uucp> <1992Jul23.195523.28010@panix.com> <DAN.92Jul29113636@dynasty.dyndata.uucp>
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- In article <DAN.92Jul29113636@dynasty.dyndata.uucp> dan@dyndata.com writes:
- >In article <1992Jul23.195523.28010@panix.com> schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster) writes:
- >> BUT(!!!!) the batteries have a nominal life of about 500 cycles.
- >Whoa. That sucks. Aren't NiCd's up in the 1000's of cycles?
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- So what is the true story. I thought that Nickel Hydride was th wave
- of the future in batteries. It now sounds like they have drawbacks too.
- I note that Toshiba is apparently using regular NiCd batteries for
- their new T4400 series. Does that mean Toshiba no longer thinks that nickel
- hydride is better ?
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- Cheers,
- Dan Ts'o 212-327-7671
- Dept. Neurobiology dan@rna.rockefeller.edu
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