And I bet, very seriously, that using anything LESS than something
like the LaCrosse will net that much of an improvement.
NiMH battery life and performance is very tightly hooked to the
quality of the charger. The more sophisticated the charger, the
better it gets up to the limits of the battery set. Just draining
than recharging the batteries would never give such a performance
improvement.
For my admittedly simplistic purposes, shoving the buggers into the
supplied charger once a week is doing well enough that it's no
matter. ;-)
Godfrey
On Oct 18, 2005, at 3:44 PM, Rob Studdert wrote:
On 18 Oct 2005 at 13:14, Powell Hargrave wrote:
True. But on the other hand after getting my La Crosse charger I
tested and
reconditioned my older batteries. This including 2 1/2 semi
retired sets of six
year old Radio Shack 1200mah batteries. After reconditioning one
set was up to
minimum 1050mha and another to 950mha. The cells increased
capacity with
reconditioning by 30% to 50%. These antiques are kept in the
fridge and are
useful for non critical functions. A couple of two year old sets
also increased
in capacity by 10-20% when reconditioned. Newer sets did not
improve.
So it seems fully discharging / reconditioning occasionally, will
help
older NiMH cells.
True, but I'll add that after receiving my La Crosse charger and
purchasing
several sets of new 2500mAh Sanyo Ni-MH cells and running the
conditioning
cycle on this charger I have never experienced better battery life.
I'm
consistently achieving over 1000 shots per charge (RAW). I always
run the
batteries flat in the camera then set them in the charger on the
discharge/recharge cycle (500mA/1000mA).
