[Greenbuilding] Battery charger--works on standard Alkaline
RT
archilogic at yahoo.ca
Thu Jan 5 15:18:50 CST 2012
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.
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Rob Tom
Kanata, Ontario, Canada
< A r c h i L o g i c at Y a h o o dot c a >
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