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- From: brb@falcon.is (Bjorn R. Bjornsson)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: nicads for Gameboy?
- Message-ID: <1360@falcon.is>
- Date: 9 Jan 93 19:22:42 GMT
- References: <6560052@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM>
- Organization: Gagntaekni/Bijective Tech.
- Lines: 27
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- bame@hpfcbig.SDE.HP.COM (Paul Bame) writes:
- >In sci.electronics, tbc@cbnewsk.cb.att.com (thomas.b.cook) writes:
- >> The manual for Gameboy says not to use nicad batteries. I
- >> called their hot line where I was told that this is because
- >> the nicads can explode and damage the game. What are the
- >> conditions where this is a concern? I have some ideas but
- >> I'd appreciate the net.wisdom interpretation of this warning.
-
- If this is what they say on the hotline, I think the warning
- in the manual is criminally negligent. I puzzled over this
- very same paragraph, and then decided to ignore it.
-
- >> TIA,
- >> Tom
- >Warning or not, they work just fine. Maybe the warning is because
- >the gameboy likes to place a short across the batteries now and then
- >but I've not had or seen any problems.
-
- Really? Is this a possibility? Geez, I find this beyond belief.
- If it's true and design "feature", no doubt Nintendo will find its
- behind fried in court at some time.
-
- NiCads work just fine in my son's Gameboy. But I would dearly like
- to have this "shorting" story confirmed.
-
- Bjorn R. Bjornsson
- brb@falcon.is
-