Yeah, I have a bunch of them. They are a different formula than normal aklalines so can be recharged. However they still aren’t as good as nimhs. They can’t supply high currents, they get around 100 cycles (less if fully discharged), and they require a special charger.
Yeah, just read wikipedia:
-hundreds of charges, Id rather say, top-up cycles if discharged for less than 25%
-few dozen charge/top-up cycles if discharged more than 50%
-if discharged empty, needs to be refreshed couple of times
And as mentioned by scaru - meant for really low drain devices.
and you’re dying to hear just one more classic Rolling Stone song outta of an MP3, yeah I can see where one of these might be worth $10 - or to give some life back to a sputtering shortwave radio in the middle of announcing another ICBM’s heading your way.
It’s small enough to go into an extra not your main bug-out bag without too much bother. Maybe a half-way good barter item to trade something with peeps without any good rechargeables at all but have a crapload of alkies laying about.
They do at least top-out your existing alkies which is better than nuttin I suppose so I don’t think they’re necessarily completely idiotic in an end of the world common-sense sorta way. H)
This kind of reminds me of a charger that Radio Shack used to sell back in the 70s for ‘heavy duty’ zinc-carbon batteries. I always wondered how well THAT thing could have possibly worked.
Huh, so this sort of charger is still floating around out there. I remember I saw something like this years ago in the teaser items next to the cash register at a supermarket.
but whatever. This is $10’s worth of see-sawing on what-ifs, I absolutely know what the future holds under every circumstance, and other sundry I don’t need it because I haves.
Then yes, you’re prolly better off because you don’t have it. Everybody thinks differently about different things. 8)
the AC charger it comes with outputs 7v DC @250mA.
Also let’s say that doesn’t fly, I have inverters that in a pinch I can plug into an SLA 12v battery, output 120v AC, and then plug the unit’s little charger brick into the inverter.
Got a alkaline/ NiMH/NiCAD charger from radio shak a couple years ago. It’s a piece of . Charge current is in the range of 60mA (which is supposed to be low) and the max voltage after removal is only around 1.5V as opposed to a fresh alkaline with OCV of 1.6V or greater. The recharged cells ALWAYS leak weather they are used or not. I would have thought that if they are recharged, ie similar capacity to a slightly used cell, the likelyhood of leakage would have been reduced… sigh
Others however think…….they are. I don’t claim the latter regardless of what any yokel sez. Some though do understand the differences. What does this have to do with me because I bought an alky charger and you think it’s stupid? I have no idea. Don’t take it personal but I honestly don’t care what you think. You do your thing. I’ll do mine. Otherwise, we’re done.