[NTLK] Re - converted AA carriers

From: Frank Gruendel (Frank_Gruendel_at_t-online.de)
Date: Thu Feb 14 2002 - 18:17:22 EST


>>You can put them in the normal battery tray and they'll work (the capacity
>>meter would show wrong values, though), but you wouldn't be able to charge
>>them in the Newton.

> However, there would be no damage to the newt using them?

Nope, there wouldn't.

> You would just have to remove them to charge em?

Right. Would be better anyway if you used a sophisticated external charger.

> Would they last longer/shorter than the standard apple rechargable pack?

Longer. The Apple pack has 1200 mAh cells inside. State of the art for off
the shelf cells these days is around 1700 mAh.

Frank

Newton hardware and software at http://www.pda-soft.de

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