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- From: walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Best nicads??
- Message-ID: <13635@optilink.COM>
- Date: 14 Dec 92 23:49:26 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.131021.19612@panix.com>
- Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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- From article <1992Dec12.131021.19612@panix.com>, by schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster):
- > In article <rich.724149537@pencil> rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu (Rich Winkel) writes:
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- #>I seem to recall radio shack (gasp) had among the best nicads, especially
- #>in the D size, which were something like twice the capacity of all other
- #>D sized nicads. The reason is that other brands' D nicads were actually
- #>C sized nicads camouflaged in D cases.
- #>Well worth reading.
-
- > Are you sure the Radio Shack endorsement didn't just apply to their alkaline
- > cells? The Radio Shack D nicads are =AA= cells in D cases!
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- From the 1993 Radio Shack catalog:
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- Size Amp hours
- ----------------------
- D 1.250
- C 1.250
- 9V 0.065
- AA 0.650
- AAA 0.180
- N 0.150
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