never mind, I looked it up myself, as you can see, even sanyo's own "regular" nimh batteries have "far superior" capacity on a full charge than their own eneloopes:
http://www.eneloop.info/home/performance-details/capacity.html So what does this mean, well if you use your batteries within a couple months of charging the eneloops will run out of energy quicker than regular nimh batteries. the only advantage of using eneloops is if you charge and then dont use for two months or more. By then the self discharge of the regular nimh will have equalized to the the lower capacity of the eneloops have in the first place when fully charged. So, unless you actully wait 2 months to use the eneloops after charging, they are inferior, not superior to regular nimh for what a battery does which is store ususable energy. JC O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of JC OConnell Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 8:45 PM To: 'Pentax-Discuss Mail List' Subject: RE: *ist DS storage question yup, far superior if you value charging but not using your batteries for months later. BTW, do these eneloops have as much capacity in mAH as other nimh batteries or not????? JC O'Connell hifis...@gate.net -----Original Message----- From: pdml-boun...@pdml.net [mailto:pdml-boun...@pdml.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Walker Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 6:50 PM To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List Subject: Re: *ist DS storage question Brian Walters wrote: > Re rechargeable batteries. It's been said before here but worth > repeating that Sanyo Eneloops are far superior to most other > rechargeables. Uh, oh. Fire in the hole! :-) -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.