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- From: adrian@cs.hw.ac.uk (Adrian Hurt)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Best nicads??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.155812.18359@cs.hw.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 15:58:12 GMT
- References: <1992Dec12.131021.19612@panix.com> <13635@optilink.COM> <1992Dec15.161824.7507@cc.gatech.edu>
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- Organization: Dept of Computing & Electrical Engineering, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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- In article <1992Dec15.161824.7507@cc.gatech.edu> byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
- >
- >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)
-
- For what it's worth, here are the capacities of Ever Ready NiCad batteries in
- my Oct 1992 - Mar 1993 Farnell catalogue (Farnell being a mail order firm, not
- a producer):
-
- Size Amp Hours
- ---- ---------
- AAA 0.18
- N 0.15
- AA 0.50
- C 2.20
- D 4.00
- PP3 0.11
- PP9 1.20
-
- RS, which in this country stands for Radio Spares, sell special high capacity
- batteries made by Varta. Most are odd sizes, but there is an AA battery with
- a figure of 0.70 Ah. Note that unlike what some people have claimed, those
- PP3 and PP9 batteries put out 8.4V, not just 7.2V.
-
- If that figure of 1.6 Ah for an AA battery is correct, I want an address so I
- can order some!
-
- As for the person who wanted to detect how full a battery is by the voltage it
- produces, the Farnell catalogue has a graph showing capacity versus voltage.
- The graph starts out at 1.4V, drops sharply to about 1.25V at 10% discharge,
- stays fairly flat with a slight downward slope to about 1.2V at 75% discharge,
- and then drops more sharply again. In fact, there are three curves shown, for
- different currents - using a higher current results in a slightly lower
- capacity. All three curves are the same shape, though - sharp drop, very
- flat for most of the battery's discharge time, then another sharpish drop at
- the end. So you should be able to tell when a battery is really freshly
- charged, and when it is really low, but you will have a hard time telling
- whether it is 30% discharged or 60% discharged.
-
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