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- From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
- Subject: Re: Best nicads??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.161824.7507@cc.gatech.edu>
- Sender: news@cc.gatech.edu
- Reply-To: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff)
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
- References: <1992Dec12.131021.19612@panix.com> <13635@optilink.COM>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:18:24 GMT
- Lines: 49
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- In article <13635@optilink.COM> walsh@optilink.COM (Mark Walsh) writes:
- >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:
- >
- >#>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!
- >
- >From the 1993 Radio Shack catalog:
- >
- >Size Amp hours
- >----------------------
- >D 1.250
- >C 1.250
- >9V 0.065
- >AA 0.650
- >AAA 0.180
- >N 0.150
- >--
- >Mark Walsh (walsh@optilink) -- UUCP: uunet!optilink!walsh
- >AOL: BigCookie -- Amateur Radio: KM6XU@WX3K -- USCF: L10861
- >"What, me worry?" - William M. Gaines, 1922-1992
-
- I don't think that's the version referred to. RS has a line of high capacity
- NiCads (from memory of the 1993 catalog):
-
- Size: Amp Hours
- ----- ---------
- D 4.3
- C 2.0
- AA 1.6 (I think)
-
- note the D and C sizes have different capacities.
-
- These are Gold with Blue writing not the normal purple ones.
-
- I'm planning on using a battery pack with the D size batteries for a computer
- I'm building.
-
- BAJ
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- Another random extraction from the mental bit stream of...
- Byron A. Jeff - PhD student operating in parallel!
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