Thomas Bantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
I'm going to keep my eye open for one of those. I think I've found an EOS1
plain grip in a bargain bin that might be useful.
>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.
I keep reading that sets of rechargeables should always be kept as a set
and charged together.
>Ok, an intelligent charger should be able to avoid this, but I prefer to
>do it for each cell seperately.
My NiCad charger looks like it does this sort of thing - there's an LED
next to each battery position. But that might be just a con!
>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.
They might be made up from 2/3AAs.
F. Craig Callahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Indeed; but you needn't use Canon's charger. I use a Maha MH-C777
>Universal Charger that cost less than US$50.
How have you arranged connection between the charger and pack? I presume
there is some kind of plug/socket on the real thing but knowing Canon its
non-standard.
Tom Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>FWIW, Rayovac make a three-way charger (NiCads, their own rechargeable
>alkalines, and NiMH) that holds eight AA or AAA or C cells at once, but
>you can charge in any quantity. I think it set me back about $14, I
>bought 16 NIMH batteries off eBay for $24.
Wow, they are cheap. www.7dayshop.com (Guernsey - where I buy my film) do
a set of four Panasonic 1.5Ah NiMH AAs for 9.95 UKP and a charger (that
only takes four) for 16.95.
>As for getting them in and out of the battery pack, try wrapping a piece
>of clear tape around each battery and sticking the ends together to form
>flap handle. It works for me.
Brilliant!
Chris.
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