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On Apr 1, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Ramon Gandia wrote:
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\n> I was sitting around fat, dumb and happy and got to looking
\n> and realized that among all the MPD and MPA's I have here,
\n> I only have *one* good battery. Anything else either fails
\n> minutes after taking out of the charger, or does not work
\n> at all. the good one is the tall battery.
\n>
\n> You know, Police officers use "tall" MPA and MPD radios for
\n> batons. One blow to the head with one of these, and the
\n> suspect's skull is branded with a mirror image of "GE".
\n>
\n> So, reading this thread, I decided to take a look. You are
\n> right, all that is available seem to be tall NiCD's for lots
\n> of money. And those are in the 1100 mAh range using, I think,
\n> C-sized NiCD cells. Terrible.
\n>
\n> Well, I said, I have some links here, let me see ... web site
\n> out of business, battery outfit does not carry these batteries
\n> anymore, etc. etc.
\n>
\n> End result: MPA/MPD batteries are now *unobtanium*. Time to
\n> get serious, guys.
\n>
\n> What about putting NiMH cells into the carcasses? I hope I have
\n> not thrown out my carcasses! Yikes, only two left! For 20
\n> radios I have one good battery and two carcasses! They don't
\n> look at all easy to open up, but Batteriesamerica.com and
\n> others have "inserts" and "individual cells" with welded tabs
\n> already.
\n>
\n> Figure 6 of the Sanyo eneloop with tabs, AA, will give me a
\n> 2500 mAh battery. And a short one at that! Now we are cooking
\n> with gas! Charging should not be an issue in the regular GE
\n> rapid charger. (I have more chargers than batteries!).
\n>
\n> So guys, the question arises: How do you open up one of
\n> these batteries up to replace the cells?
\n>
\n> And while on the subject, what is wrong with those 3.3 volt
\n> computer backup coin cells with leads for the Memory battery
\n> in the MPD? I think it will stuff in ...
\n>
\n> --
\n> /|\
\n> Ramon Gandia, Nome, Alaska USA
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