17 Jan
2005
17 Jan
'05
7:42 a.m.
I have noticed that NiMH prices have gone down
about half over the last 5 years.
In many cases they are cheaper than NiCads now.
This raises a question for refurbishing older equipment: is it always
OK to just drop a set of NiMH's in place of same-size NiCad's? Most
of the "stupid" NiCad battery chargers were just 0.1C trickle chargers,
but the "smart" ones that looked for the voltage rise at the end of charge
of a NiCad may not see this with a NiMH pack. Anyone have any experience?
Last time I had to put some new Sub-C cells in my Fluke scopemeter I had
to look rather hard to find true NiCads as opposed to MiMH's.
Tim.