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From: phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai)
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Subject: Re: Hi-capacity nicads?
Message-ID: <1990Oct12.014312.11034@amd.com>
Date: 12 Oct 90 01:43:12 GMT
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In article <12634@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> perley@galaxy (Donald P Perley) writes:
|Could anyone post where in this range the commonly available cells
|fall, like GE and Radio Shack?  The rating was noticably missing on
|the packs of RS cells I recently bought.

They probably need to be charged for 14-16 hours. Take the charge
current and multiply by 10, that's the capacity. That also gives
you an idea of their efficiency as an energy storage system,
ignoring the difference in voltage between charging and
discharging.

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