On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Chris Valentine wrote:
>
> I find it a bit of a pain getting the AAs out of the battery holder for
> the PB-E1. If I could make a thingy that I could just slide the holder
> into for it to recharge, perhaps held against a couple of prongs with an
> elastic band, it would save a lot of farting about.
That's true. It *is* a pain to get them out and I'm grateful I hadn't to
do this "on the road" yet. Some time I'll finally buy a second battery
holder. At home, when charging, I'll live with the pain. When charging the
whole pack, especially when discharging it completely, you risk destroying
the weakest cell. Ok, an intelligent charger should be able to avoid this,
but I prefer to do it for each cell seperately.
>
> IMHO the rechargeable packs for the boosters are a complete rip off since
> they simply contain ordinary rechargeables in a sealed pack.
Agreed, it's a rip off.
> One could even modify the standard holder for the PB-E2 to get the
> higher speed drive modes available on the EOS1v (as has been discussed
> here before) if you are going to use NiMH AAs.
Yes, but the sealed packs contain 10 cells AFAIK, giving 12V instead of
9.6V with your eight cells in the holder. That *might* cause problems.
Thomas Bantel
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