[Texascavers] battery related

2009-08-22 Thread David
This is probably old news, but I just found out about it. Energizer's patent on lithium batteries expired a year ago. About that time, there was some post about a new Energizer lithium battery being marketed with less juice and a little cheaper. The going rumor is that Energizer did this

Re: [Texascavers] battery related

2009-08-22 Thread Don Cooper
Lithium Ion is probably the superior in terms of power to weight. Nickel Metal hydride is cheaper, but quite superior to older batteries like NiCad and Lead Acid. (Lead Acid though can support millions of charge/discharge cycles - I don't think any other battery can compete in that parameter,

Fwd: [Texascavers] battery related

2009-08-22 Thread Don Cooper
-- Forwarded message -- From: Don Cooper wavyca...@gmail.com List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 12:33 AM Subject: Re: [Texascavers] battery related To: Lyndon Tiu l...@alumni.sfu.ca Cc: David dlocklea...@gmail.com And of course, please note -