Re: OT? LED Lanterns

On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:49:32 GMT, mick wrote:

No-one appears to have mentioned temperature. At low temperatures NiMh
and NiCD both suffer from a temporary drop in capacity. In other words,
they work for a lot less time than you would expect from a battery of
that rating.

The capacity in Eneloop-type cells seems to hold better than in ordinary
NiMH.
--
Peter.
You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion?
It's not rocket science, you know.
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