As an aside, I would add that one of the most useful things I've ever bought is this hand-held battery tester. Cost = peanuts.
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It's also educational to then do some reading on the subject of battery charge and what in general terms constitutes an 'exhausted' battery. Bottom line is that you won't notice any significant reduction in the performance of a 1.5V rated motor until the battery gets down towards about 1V, which is why a 'nominally 1.5V' re-chargeable AAA. AA, or C cell that's actually only around 1.2V fully charged works absolutely fine for us.
Best NiMH re-chargeable brands for me so far have been Eneloop, GP ReCyko, and VapexTech Instant. I have a bunch of Eneloop AA cells that are marked Sanyo and are still re-charging just fine, even though the branding was changed to Panasonic in 2009. In regular cells it's Duracell every time, when they're sensibly priced.
(This post was last modified: 01-20-2024, 10:37 AM by chrisjo.)
It's also educational to then do some reading on the subject of battery charge and what in general terms constitutes an 'exhausted' battery. Bottom line is that you won't notice any significant reduction in the performance of a 1.5V rated motor until the battery gets down towards about 1V, which is why a 'nominally 1.5V' re-chargeable AAA. AA, or C cell that's actually only around 1.2V fully charged works absolutely fine for us.
Best NiMH re-chargeable brands for me so far have been Eneloop, GP ReCyko, and VapexTech Instant. I have a bunch of Eneloop AA cells that are marked Sanyo and are still re-charging just fine, even though the branding was changed to Panasonic in 2009. In regular cells it's Duracell every time, when they're sensibly priced.
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