I second Eneloop. Great battery holding charge.

John

--- On Thu, 8/26/10, Philip Pemberton <piclist@philpem.me.uk> wrote:

> From: Philip Pemberton <piclist@philpem.me.uk>
> Subject: Re: [EE]:: Ripoff AA NimH batteries
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
> Date: Thursday, August 26, 2010, 8:13 PM
> On 26/08/10 15:25, RussellMc wrote:
> > Would you buy a good unused battery from this man ?
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> To be brutally honest, there are very few good NiMH
> manufacturers left.=20
> The Chinese mfgs have flooded the market with quite a bit
> of utter tat.=20
>  From personal experience:
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> =A0=A0=A0Uniross -- utter crap. Never seen one of
> these hold charge for longer=20
> than a few days, measured capacity is often far short of
> the labelled=20
> capacity.
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> =A0=A0=A0Gold Peak / GP -- reasonable.
> Self-discharge a bit on the poor side,=20
> capacity usually on spec or slightly under (probably
> attributable to=20
> measurement error), but otherwise pretty good.
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> =A0=A0=A0Sanyo/Eneloop -- very, VERY good. Built
> to spec, capacity usually=20
> OVER Sanyo's spec, and almost no self discharge. Shame
> they're not=20
> available as higher capacity (=3Dlarger size) tagged cells,
> they'd be=20
> great for rebuilding Acorn A4 laptop packs.
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