Lidl Specials

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

When the time comes I'll put a spotweld or two on it.

[Timothy Murphy]

I bought a load of them - they are 3.99 euro over here, which is still less than half the price at Maplin.

I did wonder if they are normal rechargeable batteries?

Also Lidl had an enormous number of them - they seem quite bad at judging how many of a given object they will sell, eg their expensive electronic items either go in 10 minutes, or not at all.

[Guy King]

The message from Timothy Murphy contains these words:

Well, they're NiMhs, which have been around sof some years now. If you try charging them with a NiCd charger they probably won't like it.

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

[Dave H.]

Different terminal (fully charged) voltage, different charge/voltage characteristics, different leakage (trickle) currents under charge

An useful reference:

H. (The engineer formerly known as Homeless)

[Bob Martin]

Are they really AAA rechargables? The highest AAAs I've seen are 900 maH. It's not long since AAs passed 2000

[Timothy Murphy]

No, they were AAs. (They did have AAAs, but not that capacity.)

[Timothy Murphy]

does anyone know if microprocessor-controlled chargers are available here (in the UK/EU)?

[The3rd Earl Of Derby]

Try ebay,I was looking at one only last night at 14GBP new ie buy it now.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

RS sell the Mascot range which is very good. Pricey, though.

[Mark]

Try