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From: rbrown@cs.cornell.edu (Russell Brown)
Subject: Re: INFINITY Nicads At Price Club
Message-ID: <1993Apr20.172811.27978@cs.cornell.edu>
Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY 14853
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1993 17:28:11 GMT
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In article <msf.735282978@skaro> msf@skaro.as.arizona.edu (Michael Fulbright) writes:
>Infinity Nicad batteries. You got a package of 6 D cells for
>less than $10. Naturally I was pretty skeptical so I looked closer.

>recharge the battery for 5 hours at 100ma, which I took to peak
>these batteries have a maximum capacity of 0.5 A-Hr.

	I don't know about these in particular, but most of the NiCad D cells
you find in stores are actually "Sub-C" cells with big plastic wrappings
around them -- you can get D size NiCads that have 4 AH capacities from
electronics places, at a premium (they're usually about $15-20 each), and you
can tell the difference just holding them (they are mostly cell, instead of
mostly air).  Maybe the Infinity cells have a higher air-volume ratio than most.

					Russell

