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A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment Li-ion batteries are too expensive yet, but the NiMH are sold at reasonable prices. A set of 4 NiMH AA-size batteries of 2.5 Ah each can maintain 4.8 volts during 80% of their rated discharge time, which at 1 ampère steadily would be 8 hours.
[July 23, 2007, 5:28]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment This one runs on NiMH batteries. It would improve with NiMH batteries, though. tag=ne.gall.latest This one will run on Li-ion batteries. Well, looks like Sir Brian Catt considers my poor fact analyses below his dignity to respond.
[August 4, 2007, 9:40]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment We will use portable lamps on small batteries (NiMH, Li-ion, whatever more efficient) with enough light flux to compete with incandescent and CFLs. An acid-lead battery with 18 Ah rating weighs several kilograms, while the NiMH batteries just 270...
[July 9, 2007, 20:42]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment Also, when you combine the fact that you are making your assumptions on the weight of NiMh batteries being twn times lighter than they actually are (or same weight but 10% of the voltage), I suspect your logic falls down just a tiny bit - after...
[October 3, 2007, 5:14]
New battery technology promises quarter-hour charge
News Like all rechargeables, they self-discharge when not in use -- around 5 to 6 percent loss of charge per day, compared to existing NiMH batteries at 3 to 4 percent. The new technology is based on existing nickel metal hydride (NiMH) chemistry -- the...
[March 19, 2002, 17:44]
Safety of fast-charging batteries
Talkback I've got some 15 miniute NiMH batteries, which come with a very beefy charger that has a fan capable of floating an elephant in a tutu. They work fine: I understand (but have never checked! that they've got current limiters and fuses built-in.
[May 22, 2009, 11:17]
Creative Nomad Jukebox
Downloads This new feature reconditions your NiMH batteries so that it improves the performance of the battery life for use on your Nomad Jukebox. This is the latest release of Creative Jukebox Firmware for users running Mac OS 8.6 and above.
[August 15, 2001, 1:59]
Dead iPod syndrome - no volt found?
Talkback I've got equipment that can take a LiIon pack, a NiMH pack or AA batteries (primary or secondary). Buzzy: There are lots of options available to Apple - and other - makers. You can swap the battery packs to suit: electronically it's not difficult...
[January 13, 2004, 8:59]
Dead iPod syndrome - no volt found?
Talkback You may not be aware that some devices such as DECT phones have turned away from custom battery packs to standard NiMH AAA batteries. Another advantage of this is that in an emergency alkaline batteries can be used (but not of course recharged).
[January 18, 2004, 13:22]
Digital Wallet review
Reviews There's a Type II PC Card slot and a CompactFlash adapter for uploading digital camera images, MP3 files or whatever; a mono LCD screen for navigating and displaying the Motorola ColdFire-driven control software; a six-pack of rechargeable NiMH...
[January 1, 2001, 23:00]
Bluetooth add-on coming to Palm V
News The Waveclip is powered by rechargeable NiMH batteries that the company claims provide more than ten hours of use. At the same time, the batteries can recharge the Palm V if the need arises. A Singapore-based company plans to release a Bluetooth...
[March 22, 2001, 8:34]
Nuggets: Remote control that will keep you in your chair
News Four AA batteries or NiMH 4.8V rechargeable battery pack x240 pixel touch-screen LCD It's not too bulky at 138x92x38mm, and with four AA batteries it weighs a bit less than a can of Coke (430g). You don't even have to use those four AA batteries.
[October 3, 2000, 13:15]
Dead iPod syndrome - no volt found?
Talkback It's very possible - I have a hand-held radio transceiver that has a lithium battery as standard, but will also take an AA battery pack that works with NiMH or alkalines. We're at that point in some niches - watch batteries, for example, are a good...
[January 14, 2004, 10:07]
Battery Meter
Downloads This value can be configured to display the absolute battery voltage or the battery level in percent.Furthermore the whole battery handling of the Palm can be switched between alkaline, NiCd, rechargeable alkaline (only on OS 3.3), NiMH and...
[September 8, 2000, 8:00]
Belkin MediaPilot Wireless Keyboard
Downloads Provides long operation life using NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) batteries. Belkin MediaPilot Wireless Keyboard:The feature-packed keyboard comes with powerful software that lets you program up to 96 unique multimedia, office, software, and gaming...
[July 28, 2004, 8:00]
Mobile phones for your business review
Reviews Li-ion batteries weigh less and provide 10 to 20 percent better performance than their NiMH counterparts. Look for phones that use a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery rather than a nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) one.
[June 21, 2004, 12:35]
BattLife
Downloads For old models with AAA battery you can choose correct type of power elements used - NiMh accumulators or Alkaline batteries, for example. This program intended to measurement maximum palm battery uptime in different conditions and to store and...
[November 23, 2006, 6:00]
Nuggets: Epson's feature packed image collector
News It comes with NiMH batteries and recharger, an 8MB CompactFlash card and a software package that includes Adobe PageMill, Presto! Second digital camera of the day, this time from Epson . The PhotoPC 850z heads straight to the top of Epson's range.
[November 8, 1999, 14:25]
A DC-based culture is growing.
Blog Comment Next I will build a prototype that repeats the demo out of 4 AA-size NiMH batteries, which will last about 8 hours delivering 700 mA. Take a look at this demonstration: http://br.youtube.com/watch? v=nkDPOER1Qe8
[July 12, 2007, 2:43]
Power to the people: ZDNet's guide to notebook batteries review
Reviews About a decade ago, most notebook makers switched to nickel-metal-hydride batteries (NiMH). Nickel-metal-hydride (NiMH) They are generally referred to as NiMH. Mobile phones and backup batteries The simple fact of notebook life is that systems...
[April 14, 2004, 10:00]
