Bill's wasn't talking about rechargeable lithiums, nor was I. The
throwaways give you a couple thousand exposures with the grip. They're
worth the money.
Paul
On Apr 30, 2006, at 3:16 AM, Don Williams wrote:
If you get a La Crosse charger you'll be able to keep your NiMH cells
healthy.
You'll know if they're good and also be able to 'rejuvenate' any that
might not be
performing optimally; a bad one will show up at once. Although needing
much
care and attention they're economical and I've been using them for
some time.
But always keep a pair of Lithiums in your bag in case of trouble.
By the way I don't like the idea of re-chargeable lithium cells, they
may catch fire
and explode and are potentially very dangerous. Unless you fly
electric model
aircraft you don't need them.
I think a good way to shorten the life of NiMH cells is to fast charge
them. I
charge mine at 200 ma.
Don
William Robb wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Amita Guha"
Subject: batteries discharging quickly in *istD
About a month ago, I tried to use my *istD, but the batteries were
dead. The other two sets of Nimh's I keep for it were dead as well. I
wasn't too concerned because I hadn't used the camera in a while. A
couple of days ago, I charged up all three sets, and today I headed
out to shoot. My first set lasted about 6 minutes/11 exposures, the
2nd set lasted about the same, and the 3rd were dead when I put them
in the camera, even though they'd been fully charged. When we got
home, we found out that at least two batteries were bad. The rest
seemed to charge up normally pretty quickly in the one-hour charger.
Now I am trying to figure out if the problem is with the camera or
the
batteries. We bought all the batteries at about the same time, a year
and a half ago. Is the *istD known to develop problems reading
batteries? Nate thinks we might need to change the little battery for
the *istD's computer. I am hoping it is just a simple matter of the
Nimhs going bad all at once.
I gave up on MiMH batteries some time ago. They are great when new,
but get really flakey after not very long.
I had 3 sets (24 batteries), and had similar problems with them going
screwey. I switched to lithioids a year or more back, and have never
had a wonky battery issue since.
William Robb
--
Dr E D F Williams
www.kolumbus.fi/mimosa/
personal.inet.fi/cool/don.williams/
41660 TOIVAKKA – Finland - +358400706616
