I think you are slightly mistaken in your figures (I am being polite). The current of four batteries in series is the same as one battery, but the voltage is 4 times as high. For batteries in parallel have 4x the current but the voltage stays the same as one battery.
However, the question of whether rechargeable will hurt the equipment is a matter of whether the manufacture was depending on the internal resistance (high on alkalines, low on rechargeables) for current limiting, or has built current limiting into the circuit (more expensive). A battery will deliver current proportional to its load, and if there is no external load that is the internal resistance. A dead shorted ni-cad AA will deliver about an amp for a couple of minutes. Long enough to melt the battery and maybe the equipment it is in, and that kind of current can destroy integrated circuits in micro-seconds. So, if the manufacture did not design the equipment to use rechargeables you may have a problem, a very real problem. On the other hand sometimes they just tell you not to use rechargeables to limit their liability, or to try and make you buy their own battery pack, and the equipment is perfectly capable of handling them. Ciao, graywolf ----- Original Message ----- From: Brendan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 10:28 AM Subject: RE: Rechargeable (2CR5) for PZ-1p > When I was doing those Nimh tsts I also mesured the > amperage of the cells, the best alkaline battery testd > at 1.6V 40~50 ma, a 1600 mah nimh battery was 1.3v > 130-140 ma, now remember your puttting 4 of these in a > fg battery pack, so 4 regular or rechargable alkalines > will provide 160-200 ma to the camera, now 4 nimh or > nicads are powering 560 ma to the camera, if they > built it to be powered by a higher voltage lower > amperage source and you double/triple the apmerage it > is only a matter of time before you burn something in > it. No rechargables in my MZ-3, the flashes can use > them all they want, since I change the AA's in the > MZ-3 every 3 months but the flahses nightly - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
