[time-nuts] HP 105B: Modern replacement for NiCad battery pack?
Mark Sims
holrum at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 5 17:54:17 UTC 2018
Since NiMH cells typically have over twice the capacity of NiCad cells, a C/10 charger will charge them at less than C/20. It's best to trickle charge NiMH cells in the C/30 to C/40 range, but depending on the cell C/20 might be OK. Measure your charge current on a discharged pack and calculate the C rate. Tweak the charger supply for a C/30 to C/40 rate.
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NIMH is not necessarily a drop in. While it will work fine in the short term, crude chargers that implement constant trickle like C/10 can be (emphasis) tolerated (/emphasis) by some NIMH cells, and totally out of spec for others.
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