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HP41 Nicad Pack. Question of age? Message #1 Posted by Steve on 16 Aug 2000, 7:53 p.m. I just received an HP41 Nicad pack from a person I contaced via the classified ads section. RELAX -- The pack's great, this is not a complaint :-D It has a date code that indicates it was manufactured mid 1994. That's quite recent. I was surprised. Should I have been? When was the last of these manufactured? I assume it would have been near the end of the 5 years of support after the HP41 was withdrawn. When was that? It's settled down to hold a charge of around 5.6V after being on charge for about 12 hours (it was 5.85V just after charging). Is this reasonable? It's somewhat higher than the nominal 4.8V for a 4 cell pack. Gee, so much I don't know.

Re: HP41 Nicad Pack. Question of age? Message #2 Posted by Viktor Toth on 17 Aug 2000, 3:58 a.m., in response to message #1 by Steve 5.6V is quite normal for 4 fully charged NiCd cells. As for the date, I don't know when the last one was made, but I think you're right on the mark with your guess that it was probably made near the very end of HP's support commitment for the 41 series. Viktor

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