Almost six months ago we made the switch to rechargeable batteries. Next month, I’ll be doing some follow up tests to see how well the battery capacity is holding up, but for this post, I thought I’d share some thoughts on how our process has been working out. To recap, we have stopped using alkaline [...]
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Rechargeable Batteries—Making the Switch
After the last post on batteries, Dave asked a really good question: How does one get started? Other questions were raised as well; How to you justify the cost of the charging infrastructure? How do you determine charging/cell capacity? Good questions, all and I will attempt some answers. First, some history. When I first started using [...]
Rechargeable Batteries—Why You’ve Been Burned
This has been one of the most fascinating topics I’ve ever written about. As I’ve been Twittering and reading conversation threads on the CTDRT boards, there seem to be three camps of people in the rechargeable battery debate. The first group has used them for years, loves them and wouldn’t consider going back to alkaline [...]
Battery Shootout—Mike’s Picks
If you’ve missed the previous two posts on rechargeable batteries, you need to go back and read about the test, and the result. Got that? OK, good. So now we’ve run the test, analyzed the results, it’s time to pick a winner, right? Sure, fine. But let me remind you what didn’t win: The ProCell. [...]
Battery Shootout Pt. 1
As a longtime proponent of rechargeable batteries, I have gotten into many, uh, discussions of their relative merits. Some people are curious about them and want to learn more. Others are pretty much biased agains rechargeable batteries of any type (except, presumably, the ones in their phones, cars, laptops, cordless phones, PS3 remotes, etc…). In [...]
Why I Use Rechargeable Batteries
There was significant discussion on the CTDRT e-mail list the other day about the use of batteries for wireless mics. Many people suggested different places to get great deals and which ones they use. I suggested using rechargeables instead. That met with some resistance, much of it centered around a bad experience. I’ll say a [...]
Update on Rechargeable Batteries
Last fall I wrote a post on rechargeable batteries, which you can read in it’s entirety here. I know a lot of audio guys who don’t like them, or are leery of them (for good reason, they used to be less than worthless), but I’ve used them with great success now for almost 2 years. [...]
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