Why can't they just make rechargable lithium ion batteries in AA form.. LiON batteries rule <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
You really gotta buy good quality batteries. When I went on vacation in Europe, I loaded my camera with 4 Duracells, and at the last minute picked up 12 Walgreens brand batteries just in case.
More than halfway through the vacation (more than a week, about 300 pictures), the Duracells died. So I loaded up some of the Walgreens.
I KID YOU NOT, the cheapass Walgreens batteries were dead in less than a day. As were the next 4. And the next 4. Fortunately, I located some Duracells in France while on the last pack of Walgreens batteries, and they lasted me the rest of the trip.
Moral: cheap batteries REALLY SUCK. If you bought cheap batteries and they died in a matter of hours, spend the extra nickel and get a higher quality brand.
It probably costs a lot of time and money to research a new inovatable way to produce better forms of batteries and then manufacture them for the consumer market. That is unless some rogue group decides to research and invent a better form of a consumer-level battery and then sell the patent to a company and whatnot. But still, it costs money.
If people are still buying batteries that only last so and so, then the companies are happy. What is the point then in making better batteries if the current still sell?
I really don't know, but I hope there will be a better form of energy source than the battery in the near future.
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Marik hit the nail on the head. It's not in the interests of battery companies to produce batteries which people will have to buy less of. It *is* in the interests of computer hardware manufacturers to produce better technology. Mind you, there's no point in comparing the rate of increase in computer technology to anything else - it's the exception rather than the rule.
However, if Duracell figures out a way to produce longer lasting batteries, Energizer will be behind in the market. Therefore, it <b>is</b> in the interest of the companies to produce the longest lasting battery. <b>And,</b> if one Duracell was able to invent a better battery, they would certainly jump at it before Energizer could be the first. So I imagine that most battery companies are currently researching new ways to store energy.
i havent used a battery in ages. maybe its cos im stupid and waste all my money on MP3 players (recharagable), Game Boy Advance SP!!! (rechargeable). but rechargable batteries **** me off so much too because for my mobile, for example, ive had it for like 2 years and the battery lasts about 1/3 of the time it did when i first got it so im like AAAARRRRRGGHHH...
But GBA SP lasts for like 15 with full volume and backlit screen totally rules
i am not going to engage in the NiMH is betetr then NiCad etc... cos tbh i dont care i sped all day at college havign debates with college lecturers about it so gah..
my theory.. you get what you pay for i own a Sharp MD player it isnt all that good but muh it does it's job well
i put in some cheapo brand called 'Lazervane!' these long life super batteries lasted less then 1 hour... ( i put 1 AA in per hour @ college and i had one left by lunch *3 hours) and so yeah.. i was quite peeved this thing has a lithium ion buitl in battery but i lost my charger and i havent had access to any components to make a new one! so yeah it has this addon thing for actual AA's and so i then try some Duracell (theyhave nice markings on the bottom to really help out the dumbasses) and well it has been 3 days and i have used my MD player daily and i just checked. STILL on 3 bars..
i have NO idea what it is.. but this thing hates anything but duracell and yes the other ones were Alkaline too...
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More than halfway through the vacation (more than a week, about 300 pictures), the Duracells died. So I loaded up some of the Walgreens.
I KID YOU NOT, the cheapass Walgreens batteries were dead in less than a day. As were the next 4. And the next 4. Fortunately, I located some Duracells in France while on the last pack of Walgreens batteries, and they lasted me the rest of the trip.
Moral: cheap batteries REALLY SUCK. If you bought cheap batteries and they died in a matter of hours, spend the extra nickel and get a higher quality brand.
It probably costs a lot of time and money to research a new inovatable way to produce better forms of batteries and then manufacture them for the consumer market. That is unless some rogue group decides to research and invent a better form of a consumer-level battery and then sell the patent to a company and whatnot. But still, it costs money.
If people are still buying batteries that only last so and so, then the companies are happy. What is the point then in making better batteries if the current still sell?
I really don't know, but I hope there will be a better form of energy source than the battery in the near future.
Humans.
there pretty cheep and could power ... anything else a AA could power ... but for longer! dun, dun, dun
Its charge is good for 14 hours and it recharges in 4 hours. via a direct plug or 6 hours if I keep my nomad plugged into my PC via USB.
But GBA SP lasts for like 15 with full volume and backlit screen totally rules
my theory.. you get what you pay for i own a Sharp MD player it isnt all that good but muh it does it's job well
i put in some cheapo brand called 'Lazervane!' these long life super batteries lasted less then 1 hour... ( i put 1 AA in per hour @ college and i had one left by lunch *3 hours) and so yeah.. i was quite peeved this thing has a lithium ion buitl in battery but i lost my charger and i havent had access to any components to make a new one! so yeah it has this addon thing for actual AA's and so i then try some Duracell (theyhave nice markings on the bottom to really help out the dumbasses) and well it has been 3 days and i have used my MD player daily and i just checked. STILL on 3 bars..
i have NO idea what it is.. but this thing hates anything but duracell
and yes the other ones were Alkaline too...