LiPo battery pack (HP 35 etc.)

[Paul Berger (Canada)]

(04-27-2018 08:40 PM)Dieter Wrote:  

(04-27-2018 04:25 PM)mdunn Wrote:  Perhaps of interest...
https://www.edn.com/electronics-blogs/be...ck-to-life

The author of that article seems to be concerned about the voltage of the LiPo battery that is used instead of the original NiCd pack. But... why? A fully charged NiCd cell has 1,4 V or even more, so the max. 4,2 V of the LiPo cell does not exceed what three fully charged NiCds would deliver. At least that's what I think. ;-)

Could the electronics experts please shed some light on this?

Dieter

Not only that when a classic is plugged into its charger, it is running off the regulated 5VDC supplied by the charger.

Paul.