[Greenbuilding] Greenbuilding--Battery Charger Works on Standard Alkaline

Sat Jan 7 14:31:07 CST 2012

Anyone know where a "Murican" can buy one of these chargers?

Do I have to drive the 60 miles north to cross the border?

thanks,

Ken in Montana

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>   1. Re: Battery charger--works on standard Alkaline (Matt Dirksen)
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> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 19:31:11 -0500
> From: Matt Dirksen <dirksengreen at gmail.com>
> To: Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Battery charger--works on standard
> Alkaline
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> I just got one and it clearly states on the box that it will charge 
> regular (disposable) alkaline batteries up to 20 times.
>
> Worth 10 bucks to find out....
>
>
> Matt
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> On Jan 5, 2012, at 9:01 PM, "John Salmen" <terrain at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
>> If it is alkaline is there a difference? I mentioned it because a friend 
>> was
>> using it to charge regular alkaline and I thought I would get one.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:greenbuilding-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] On Behalf Of RT
>> Sent: January-05-12 1:19 PM
>> To: Green Building
>> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Battery charger--works on standard Alkaline
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>> On Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:34:21 -0500, John Salmen <terrain at shaw.ca> wrote:
>>
>>> For canucks eh!
>>>
>>> The blue planet alkaline family charger - only at Canadian tire $24.99
>>
>> Take off ! Eh, you Hoser ?
>>
>> It appears that that charger is designed for re-chargeable alkaline
>> batteries, not regular disposable alkalines if there is an actual
>> difference.
>>
>> I had ( still do) have some early generation and later generation 
>> "premium"
>> rechargeable alkaline batteries made in Canada by "Pure Energy Battery 
>> Inc."
>> of Amherst Nova Scotia that were marketed as "Green"
>> alternatives to Ni-Cd rechargeables back in the days before Ni-Mh
>> rechargeables were available (so we're probably talking at least 10 if 
>> not
>> 20 years ago ?) I have a few chargers that work for all three types of
>> rechargeables.
>>
>> I've had to discard most of the rechargeable alkalines  due to leakage,
>> although they did work fine while they lasted albeit at 1.2 Volts only
>> instwad of 1.5.
>>
>>  Unfortunately, I didn't keep track of how many cycles they lasted but m
>> guess is "more than 30, less than 50" which leads me to suspect that the
>> leakage issues which seem to concern Reuben et al is a characteristic of
>> alkaline batteries in general, rechargeable or not and not an issue 
>> having
>> to do with the charger used.
>>
>> Someone (BW ?) asked "why bother ?" (trying to recharge ordinary 
>> alkalines
>> ) I have brother who goes through bazillions industrial grade alkalines 
>> and
>> it bugs my @$$ to see them disposed of after just a single use.
>> If I give him one of the two chargers that I'm getting via Ben, I should 
>> be
>> able to reduce the environmental impact of his battery use by an amount
>> equivalent to oh, say, the EI of a small village somewhere.
>>
>> Ben: Probably wasn't the best idea to be sending your home address to the
>> List. (But I'll also need your phone number for Amazon.com and I'd 
>> suggest
>> emailing it to me off-list)
>>
>> Sacie: Thanks for your kind offer to let me piggy-back on you but I had
>> already spoken to Ben.
>>
>>
>> --
>> === * ===
>> Rob Tom
>> Kanata, Ontario, Canada
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>> < A r c h i L o g i c  at  Y a h o o  dot  c a  > (manually winnow the 
>> chaff
>> from my edress if you hit "reply")
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> Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 16:42:25 -0800
> From: Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com>
> To: Green Building <greenbuilding at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> Subject: Re: [Greenbuilding] Battery charger--works on standard
> Alkaline
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> On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Matt Dirksen <dirksengreen at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
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>> I just got one and it clearly states on the box that it will charge
>> regular (disposable) alkaline batteries up to 20 times.
>>
>> Worth 10 bucks to find out....
>>
>
> Matt,
> now that you have one, I think the challenge will be to find out about the
> following observations from candlepowerforums:
>
> *You will have a lot of leaky batteries. The special batteries have extra
> chemicals to reduce the reaction that causes alkaline batteries to leak.
> Those batteries will still leak after 3 years or so.
>
> Alkaline batteries do not fully recharge.
> I get 10 days (2*90 minutes) on my Walkman on fresh Pure Energy batteries.
> After 1st charge 9 days. After 2nd charge 8 days. ... by the time I reach 
> <
> 5 days I toss them and start a new set of batteries.
>
> NiMH batteries will recharge to 100%.  *
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