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Re: IIGS Battery Backup...
- Subject: Re: IIGS Battery Backup...
- From: duncane@jumper.mcc.ac.uk (Duncan Entwisle)
- Date: 1996/02/22
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Organization: Manchester Computing Centre
- References: <4gc8o6$kq2@yama.mcc.ac.uk> <4gg753$24pj@hearst.cac.psu.edu>
Jason Jeffries (JJeffries@psu.edu) wrote:
: Hmm... maybe. Rechargeables (ni-cads, anyway) don't hold as constant a
: voltage as regular batteries--they start out rather high and go
: downhill from there
Are you sure - I thought it was the opposite way round - they kept going
for longer, then suddenly conked out, whereas standard batteries slowly
fade away (which gives you some warning that they're dying)
?