Re: NiMhs



The message <slrndt0634.ghr.Ivan.Reid@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
from "Dr Ivan D. Reid" <Ivan.Reid@xxxxxxxxxxxx> contains these words:

> > Try taking them out and charging them - or have you?

> No tyet. Have had it in the Kitching tonight under fluorescent
> light. Every time I switch the light off there's a brief flash of light
> from the LED and then darkness. Suggests to me that a small capacitor
> is discharging, but the batteries have no capacity a tall.

> Hmm, temporarily installing normal AA cells leads to expected
> behaviour -- the NiCads are Donald Ducked methinks!
>

Nah - light levels are pretty naff ATM. Give 'em a charge.

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