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From: gmg@hcx.uucp (Greg M. Garner)
Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics
Subject: Re: About to buy radio... actually about NiCds
Summary: Source for gel cell batteries
Keywords: NiCds
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Date: 27 Sep 88 05:12:22 GMT
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In article <122@deimos.cis.ksu.edu>, sjs@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Stephen J. Schallehn F88) writes:
 
  [I wrote this part \/]
> >I don't know if this is possible, but I am involved in the electronic
> >scale business, and we were having battery problems, so we just pitched
> >the factory batteries and started using gel cel batteries!  These 
> >lasted about 10 times as long as the original batteries ( I don't know
> >if the originals were nicads or not), and they never stopped working.
> 
>   Is it possible to use such gel cell batteries in a small package as a Handi-
> Talkie?  Could you also give a source for such batteries? Thanks.
> 
>                                               - Steve Schallehn 

The source for the batteries that we are using is Active electronics. They
can be reached at 1-800-343-0874. The batteries they have range from 1.0
amp hour to 10.0 amp hour (rated for 20 hour discharge). Prices range from
16.19 to 57.99. They have both a 6 volt and 12 volt version. I am not
sure if these would fit in a handi-talkie, but they would fit on your 
belt, as I have seen some hams do.  I highly recommend these batteries.
If you cannot find the radio-electronics article on the gel-cel charger,
send me mail or call, and I will look up the exact date for the project.

Good luck!

  Greg Garner 
  gmg@hcx.uucp
  501-442-4847