On Monday, December 16, 2002, at 09:09 PM, John Charlton wrote:
<snip>
> Adding a thermistor and its contacts would make it rechargeable in the
> regular way too, which would be an improvement on the regular packs.
> You
> could use NiMH batteries, but if they died far from home you could pop
> in
> some alkaline AAs. Danger of accidentally trying to charge alkalines
> though, which I'd guess would be a bad thing.
<sniP>
Actually the NiMH battery pack has metal contact to "tell" the Newt
it's rechargeable.
I would definitely buy a couple of trays that supported both AA NimH
and AA alkalines. I'd go up to $40 each on those.
Marty
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