Re: New article and battery search help Message #5 Posted by Kevin Schoedel on 10 Jan 2001, 9:51 a.m., in response to message #4 by Katie
The battery I used was labelled as a supermarket house brand, from the Weston chains (Loblaws, Zehrs, etc.) here in Canada. (I don't think they sell nicads any more, but I could be wrong -- if they do still have the same ones, I'll post an offer to forward in the classified section.)
I don't recall seeing any manufacturer's marking, and unfortunately I threw away the casing at the time.
I do remember that the casing was black plastic, pretty thin, and the two short edges opposite the contacts were curved around the cells, giving the battery a "U" shape.
There was a single round vent between the battery contacts, through which it was possible to see the first two cells.
The cells were arranged in "six-pack" form, i.e. in rows with sides touching rather than in columns with contacts touching.
It turned out that the connection between the 'rows' was long enough that I could fold/twist them into a straight line.
I guess one could also tear tabs off flush with the 'extra' cells to join them that way.
I also 'lazily' soldered the charging circuit to the pair of spring tabs in the caculator pack, rather than to the cell tabs.
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