Re: Point & Shoot that runs on AAs?
- From: SMS <scharf.steven@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2006 09:03:25 -0800
(PeteCresswell) wrote:
Per Phil Stripling:A: "Where did I put the battery for this camera?" B: "Which one?" A: "_This_ one." B: "Not camera, battery -- which _battery_?" A: "The battery for this camera!"
Having given up and gone over to the Dark Side - with a Nikon 70s and a dImage Xi, I'd offer up another (home-related) reason to stick to your guns: Chargers.
The accretion of chargers gets ridiculous. GPS, Camera A, Camera B, Cell Phone, iPod, AA NiCad, AA Li, Photo Storage Device... and so-forth. In the end, you wind up with a rat's nest of chargers/bricks/AC cords at home. I've even taken to putting a label on each brick/charger. Must have at least twenty of them in use and a drawer full of old ones.
You can buy the Lenmar charger that chargers nearly every out of the device Li-Ion battery, and most of the other devices have USB charging cables available that can also be used with that charger.
With AA batteries, I found myself buying more and more chargers, because there were so many AA batteries to keep charged, to keep ready for devices, etc. I finally built a humongous very low rate trickle-charger, to keep all the AA batteries charged, because the self-discharge meant that I was constantly swapping batteries in the AA chargers to keep all of the batteries functional. I made the mistake of buying a lot of AA batteries at once, and not charging them for six months, and most of them were no good once I tried to use them.
I label all my chargers, including right at the tip, so no one will plug the wrong one into the wrong device. I set aside a shelf in a hall closet with a bunch of power strips, and all the wall warts, with the wires running under the shelf then back up to where just the tip and a short length of wire comes out.
It's a trade-off, but don't think you're down to one charger with AA batteries, unless you want to devote a lot of time to keeping track of battery charge levels, time since last charge, and be constantly swapping batteries. One of the things I like most about Li-Ion is that you're not spending so much time dealing with charging. The batteries last longer, due to both their higher energy density, and their much lower self-discharge rates. Can you imagine dealing with an AA powered cell phone?!
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