[Az-Geocaching] Costco AA Batteries

[Brian Cluff]

> I agree.  I bought one of those 1 hour chargers and it is great.  I also
> found a bunch of cheap batteries (no name just green batteries) on ebay.  I
> have 40 batteries and just keep them in a box.  I take them out as needed
> and charge them up.  I figure that they are getting rotated pretty well
> that way.  On a full charge I get about 9 to 10 hours on the GPSR.  They
> also seem to hold up very well in my hand held CB radios.

One thing that most people don't realize about nickel metal batteries is
they de-charge themselves over time, so they probably have a bad rap with
a lot of people for not holding up for a very long time because they were
charged and then left to sit for a while before used, or used for a short
time and then let sit for a long time after that, and then it didn't hold
up.  If you have the 1 hour charge and top them off before use, I would
bet that you get pretty close to the length of use of 1 time use
batteries.  Rayovac is actually claiming longer use times that duracell,
but I haven't bought regular batteries to just let run to see if their
claims are true on not.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek