Xref: utzoo rec.ham-radio:6144 sci.electronics:3908 Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!uwmcsd1!uxc!ksuvax1!deimos!phobos!sjs From: sjs@phobos.cis.ksu.edu (Stephen J. Schallehn F88) Newsgroups: rec.ham-radio,sci.electronics Subject: Re: About to buy radio... actually about NiCds Summary: Gell cells in HT's Keywords: NiCds Message-ID: <122@deimos.cis.ksu.edu> Date: 26 Sep 88 06:32:08 GMT References: <890@noao.UUCP> <26117@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <4111@cadnetix.COM> <725@cseg.uucp> Sender: news@deimos.cis.ksu.edu Reply-To: sjs@phobos.UUCP (Stephen J. Schallehn F88) Organization: Kansas State University, Dept of Computing & Information Sciences Lines: 10 >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