Why is it that US companies so rarely want to use USPS?
UPS, DHL and FedEX are rather over with their collection of import duty+VAT and ontop of that they then screw you for a fee for the pleasure of them taking money off you, around £12-15.
It's bloody annoying as I want to buy about half the stock they have @ ThinkGeek, sadly a 6$ item would end up costing $55.
UPS has decent tracking though, even if their people are ripoffs. They charged me an extra 3 bucks because I had some tape sticking out the bottom of my package!
...Powergenix are no longer being made, per CPF, and have low cycles, and leak under high load. .
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I have been consistantly drawing in excess of 3 amps from my NiZn during bench testing various mods... No failures to date (for reference, this has been out of 14 cells).
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I think some of the "high loads" were insanely high loads for RC stuff, not normal flashlight type loads. I was really tempted to try the NiZn cells when the 4-pack and chargers went down to $8, but I'm happy with my Eneloops and Duraloops. In fact I probably have a few more than I really need already.
I was really tempted to try the NiZn cells when the 4-pack and chargers went down to $8...
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I hate to mention this to my friends overseas, but the BigLots store here had a 20% off deal today. That means it was $6.40 for an 8 pack or charger/4pack. I bought all they had .
im in the 3 amp testing range too. great results from what i can tell on ni-zn.
discontinued or not, it will due until a different material is used as the cheap alternative to li-ion
cant always trust what you read on CPF. its like people are payed to say stuff there
Eneloops are there ready for a charge, but so is Li-ion. and if it was so dangerous, it wouldnt be in your cell phone. Li-ion is more stable at high draw than ANY ni-mh. tell a tesla roadster owner you want to put Ni-mh in his vehicle cause its "safer"
youll get laughed from here back to china, and theyll just give you lead acid, now THERES something dangerous lol
xP.1337, that's the one I was headed to pick up tomorrow. The store I went to today was out. So I did a search at Costco.com for Sanyo and it pulled up a couple of choices. This was the most expensive of the group but I saw the C & D adapters. Hmmmmm.........
its funny cause i dont see the cheaper kit on their website at all. costco products never seem to be up to date on the website.
also, im using tenergy D and C batteries, with 10,000mah and 5000 mah capacities respectively. a much better choice over using adapters in my opinion. why waste the space and have to constantly recharge lol
i use this charger from all-battery: http://www.all-battery.com/tenergyT9688universalcharger01127.aspx
the problem is charge time. that charger will take a VERY long time to charge the ni-mh. if you can get a hobby charger that does ni-mh and charge via that method
seems tenergy now has LSD "Centura". i have premium which i havent recharged yet, cause of its size its still holding a charge in my non-used Maglite 3D
they are only 1000mah less and LSD, man wish i had seen those prior to me buying the Premium ones. Oh well. at least they have nice discharge rates!
Thomas Distributing. And the http://www.thomasdistributing.com/-MAHA-MH-C808M-AA--AAA--C--D-Battery-Charger_p_244.html charger. And li-ions ARE dangerous. Anyone who denies that is-ignorant. The charger is the most crucial part. A good charger will increase the safety. And all cell phone chargers are designed into the phone, and *can't* mess up. You can't unbalance 16 18650's in a cell phone. Try putting 4 LiCo RCR's cells at 5 amp draw, tell me when you come back.
I can get a set of four 2500mah Duracell or Energizer for that price. Why go with those 2000mah Eneloops? Are they better in some way? Curious, thanks.