Heinz, NiCad is something like grape, sometimes you get a nice wine production, sometimes not. I really don't understand that, I need to exchange my screwdrive r NiCad right after 6 months of use, memory probs or something, my video camera just need a new bat every year, some other NiCads, even NiH got flat in the shelf without any consum e, but I am using those Cadnica (yellow) 1.25V AA size (800mA), it can keep charge for more than a full year, inside some equipments we have, without any further charge, with a c onsume of 5uA for the power control circuits. Some other equipments we use other NiCads we got problems after some time. It wa s a special production or what? Wagner. Heinz Czychun wrote: > Just wondering if these NiCads are special and don't lose capacity over > time (i.e. I've been assuming a 10% loss in capacity per month in storage)? > Curious, > Heinz