Well you boys can poke all the fun you want, but the facts are that NiCads
are going the way of serial ports and high button shoes. Toxicity is a
serious public problem, and EU, USA and Canada will all ban new sales
within the next year.

--Bob


At 08:20 PM 9/9/2003, you wrote:
> > and have a much narrower operating temperature range,
> > and are very sensitive to long term overcharge, resulting
> > in voltage depression, which is now being re-labeled as
> > 'memory effect' /cosmic joke/
>
>don't forget to mention higher self discharge wrt NiCd :-)
>
>
>         RM
>
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