Perhaps I am too optimistc but I plan to replace any NiMh cells with more readily obtainable ones. John Ferrell http://DixieNC.US ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dominic Stratten" To: Sent: Friday, April 30, 2004 12:31 PM Subject: Re: [OT:] Cybiko serial cable > The biggest problem with these is the packaging. It accounts for around 70% > of the total weight of the units so sending them "abroad" makes them a > little uneconomical. > > The other problem with these is that they used Prismatic NiMh batteries. > These cost around 10ukp here in the Uk - about what I can buy a Cybiko > classic for. > > I bought a crate of these to sell them on and had a failure rate on the > batteries out of the boxes of around 50%. With a bit of contact cleaning and > binning dead cells, I got 75% of the units working. > > Chances are that if someone buys a bulk lot of them for you, you'll have the > same problems. The units will not work properly with dead cells (even on the > wall warts) and can do some strange things when the cells are starting to > die. > > Just a quick warning - they are great little units otherwise. > > Dom > > -----Original Message----- > From: pic microcontroller discussion list > [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Jake Anderson > Sent: 30 April 2004 17:22 > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: [OT:] Cybiko serial cable > > > anybody in the USA interested in picking some of these up and shipping them > to the rest of us scum? (ie people outside america) ;-> > Promise we wont use them to simulate nuclear blasts or nothin. > > what is it with america and not shipping outside USA? seems in every other > country if you arent willing to ship international your a nutter. > > -- > http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList > mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu > -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu