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From: johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Why Are 9v Rechargables Not 9v??????
Message-ID: <2470013@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Feb 91 15:43:34 GMT
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< rechargeables also seem to be 7.2v.  This seems to be a pretty serious
< degradation from 9v, and I am surprised that these batteries would
< even work in some applications.
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The standard 9 V battery starts out with a cell voltage of 1.5 but will
drop slowly to 1.0 as it discharges. After that point it falls off very
rapidly. Any 9 volt device must be able to operate from 9v down to 6
or else you will be tossing batteries with a lot of good amp/minutes left
in them.


John Eaton 
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