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bighassan
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| These batteries being sold on eBay are superb - better than Duracell throwaways! I have bought about a dozen and am delighted with them. :D |
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portman
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Aitch2
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Yeah - you can actually find AA's up to around 2600mAh capacity now...
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PaulB2005
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| Quote: | I have been using some 800mAh rechargables and they have been fine for me.
I have the unit connected to the cars supply when in use so the batteries are only for the switch off countdown and a little bit of time when I am loading POI's etc.
I am finding I have to charge them every couple of weeks which is fine by me. |
So you're not actually using the batteries at all then?
| Quote: | | I have the unit connected to the cars supply when in use |
So you run the unit of the ciggy lighter when in the car?
| Quote: | | so the batteries are only for the switch off countdown |
Can you explain this? Do you mean when you switch of the ignition and it switches to batteries you get the 30 seconds count down? What's the point?
| Quote: | | a little bit of time when I am loading POI's etc |
Your PCs USB bus should power the i3 when you plug it in so your not using the batteries there either. |
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north_country_boy
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I saw these on Ebay but when I emailed the seller he said they take about 22 hours to charge up. I ended up with a Uniross 300, which takes 9 for £8.50 delivered. |
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Nickwolf
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| Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:24 pm Post subject: |
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PaulB2005,
My general point was that for, what I would consider, pretty normal use as I described there is no real need to be spending extra money on 2.5 - 3Ah batteries since run of the mill rechargables available from Tesco will do a perfectly adequate job.
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PaulB2005
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Nickwolf
Cheers. Plus i found out that keeping batteries in when it's off means it doesn't take as long to acquire the satellite's, so there is another benefit.
I didn't mean to come across as being aggressive - i just couldn't see how the batteries where being used.
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