Re: We need this for Rechargeable batteries
From: GSV Three Minds in a Can (GSV_at_quik.clara.co.uk)
Date: 10/29/04
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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 00:05:05 +0100
Bitstring <4182b28c.3286656@news-server.satx.rr.com>, from the wonderful
person Mike Fox <mikenospamfox@satx.rroutspam.com> said
>Anyone who has used rechargeables knows they eventually die.
>They start out with umpteen thousand mAh [milli-Amphere hours], and
>they get weaker and weaker as the months go by until one day the GPS
>quits in the middle of a long hike when you're really counting on it.
>
>I wish someone would sell a battery capacity meter. You'd stick a
>battery in it, and it would put a typical electical load on the
>battery and run it flat at which time the metter would beep and show
>the battery's current capacity in mAh.
>
>Lots of applications: Know when it's time to replace a battery.
>Match batteries of similar capacity. Identify defective bateries when
>you buy them. Etc.
>
>Anybody know if such a device exists?
I don't think it uses that technique (it certainly doesn't fully
discharge the cells to find out), but my Ansmann Energy-16 charger has a
facility for indicating 'this battery is cr&p' .. which it duly did with
two of my antique NiCad cells (and yes, they were).
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