Re: Rechargeable batteries

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Hello Samuel,

For microphones that need a bit more voltage than typical NiMH 1.2 batteries give you may want to use the NiZN AA rechargeable batteries and the 9.6 volt variety or NiMH batteries. They each need a separate charger but I will add the links to these products for you so that you can see them online. 

This is the charger kit that comes with a NiZN charger and 4 batteries. You can get more batteries in packs of 4 or 8 as well. 

http://www.greenbatteries.com/nickel-zinc-aa-rechargeable-batteries-and-charger.html

This is the Maha 9.6 volt “9 volt NiMH battery” – most “9 volt NiMH batteries” are actually 8.4 volts, and some are only 7.2 volts (Energizer brand) but for devices that need more voltage from a 9 volt rechargeable battery these are the way to go. 

http://www.greenbatteries.com/ma.html

You need one of these Maha chargers to charge your 9.6 volt NiMH batteries

http://www.greenbatteries.com/9vnimhsmart.html - this one charges up to four batteries. 

http://www.greenbatteries.com/ma10cesmchfo.html - this one charges up to ten batteries. 

WE have lots of customers that use these specific batteries in their mics and I guarantee that these items will perform well in yours. ;-)

Thanks for shopping on greenbatteries.com!

Sincerely,
 
Curtis   

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
454 Jill Court
Incline Village, NV 89451
cell 775-722-9901 
fax 815-301-3958
www.greenbatteries.com

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Sunday, December 6, 2009, 10:29:30 PM, you wrote:

Curtis,
 
We are currently looking to purchase 1-2 battery chargers and several rechargeable batteries for use in our wireless microphones at church. We have at least two microphones that need AA’s and three that need 9V’s. My experience in the past has been poor because of the lower voltage of some rechargeable batteries so I am looking for recommendations along with prices. Thank you for your feedback.
 
Grace and peace,
 
Samuel 
 

Re: Rechargeable batteries

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Hello Samuel,

For microphones that need a bit more voltage than typical NiMH 1.2 batteries give you may want to use the NiZN AA rechargeable batteries and the 9.6 volt variety or NiMH batteries. They each need a separate charger but I will add the links to these products for you so that you can see them online. 

This is the charger kit that comes with a NiZN charger and 4 batteries. You can get more batteries in packs of 4 or 8 as well. 

http://www.greenbatteries.com/nickel-zinc-aa-rechargeable-batteries-and-charger.html

This is the Maha 9.6 volt “9 volt NiMH battery” – most “9 volt NiMH batteries” are actually 8.4 volts, and some are only 7.2 volts (Energizer brand) but for devices that need more voltage from a 9 volt rechargeable battery these are the way to go. 

http://www.greenbatteries.com/ma.html

You need one of these Maha chargers to charge your 9.6 volt NiMH batteries

http://www.greenbatteries.com/9vnimhsmart.html - this one charges up to four batteries. 

http://www.greenbatteries.com/ma10cesmchfo.html - this one charges up to ten batteries. 

WE have lots of customers that use these specific batteries in their mics and I guarantee that these items will perform well in yours. ;-)

Thanks for shopping on greenbatteries.com!

Sincerely,
 
Curtis   

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
454 Jill Court
Incline Village, NV 89451
cell 775-722-9901 
fax 815-301-3958
www.greenbatteries.com

Follow me: http://twitter.com/curtisrandolph
                       
mailto:curtis@greenbatteries.com

Sunday, December 6, 2009, 10:29:30 PM, you wrote:

Curtis,
 
We are currently looking to purchase 1-2 battery chargers and several rechargeable batteries for use in our wireless microphones at church. We have at least two microphones that need AA’s and three that need 9V’s. My experience in the past has been poor because of the lower voltage of some rechargeable batteries so I am looking for recommendations along with prices. Thank you for your feedback.
 
Grace and peace,
 
Samuel

Re: NIZN BATTERIES

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Hello Scott,

These batteries are new enough to not really be able to know what the
self discharge capabilities are precisely but feedback from customers so far is
that they are approximately the same as low self discharge NiMH
batteries and are are much less sensitive to temperature than NiMH
batteries.

i.e.- they last MUCH longer when used in outdoor
applications like trail cameras, etc.

Hope that helps.

Sincerely,

Curtis

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
454 Jill Court
Incline Village, NV 89451
cell 775-722-9901
fax 815-301-3958
www.greenbatteries.com

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mailto:curtis@greenbatteries.com

Monday, November 30, 2009, 1:50:37 AM, you wrote:

Scott Burdick> How do these batteries compare to the NiMH batteries. Do they have the
Scott Burdick> same self discharge problem?
Scott Burdick> Is their storage life better or worse than the Low Self Discharge (ready
Scott Burdick> to use) NiMH batteries?
Scott Burdick> If my calculations are right 2500mWH translates to about 1560mAH so they
Scott Burdick> wouldn’t last as long as an Eneloop AA battery.
Scott Burdick> Thanks for your time,
Scott Burdick> Scott.

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Re: NIZN BATTERIES

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Hello Scott,

These batteries are new enough to not really be able to know what the
self discharge capabilities are precisely but feedback from customers so far is
that they are approximately the same as low self discharge NiMH
batteries and are are much less sensitive to temperature than NiMH
batteries.

i.e.- they last MUCH longer when used in outdoor
applications like trail cameras, etc.

Hope that helps.

Sincerely,

Curtis

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
454 Jill Court
Incline Village, NV 89451
cell 775-722-9901
fax 815-301-3958
www.greenbatteries.com

Follow me: http://twitter.com/curtisrandolph

mailto:curtis@greenbatteries.com

Monday, November 30, 2009, 1:50:37 AM, you wrote:

Scott Burdick> How do these batteries compare to the NiMH batteries. Do they have the
Scott Burdick> same self discharge problem?
Scott Burdick> Is their storage life better or worse than the Low Self Discharge (ready
Scott Burdick> to use) NiMH batteries?
Scott Burdick> If my calculations are right 2500mWH translates to about 1560mAH so they
Scott Burdick> wouldn’t last as long as an Eneloop AA battery.
Scott Burdick> Thanks for your time,
Scott Burdick> Scott.

Re: solar powered battery chargers for a DSLR

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Hello Mark,

The best way to charge your batteries with a solar panel, in my opinion, is to use a car adapter on your charger. If you used an ac adapter and a solar panel that would probably work too but you would have to get a bigger solar panel because of the power losses in the ac dc conversion process. I can only guess what those losses would be but there will definitely be power losses when you use a power converter. 

What you will need to do is to figure out – even if you have to guess – how fast your device(s) will use up the power that you expect to charge with a solar panel. i.e.- if your camera uses its battery in three hours of use, you will need to get a solar panel and charger combination that will charge your battery in approximately the same time. If your camera uses its battery in 2-3 hours and your solar charger set up takes 608 hours to charge, you will find it very hard to keep the battery charged – but this really depends on your expected use of the device(s) that will be charged. My opinion is tha tit is beter to have too much charge power available, and not need it, but that is my opinion. 

Hope that helps. 

Sincerely,
 
Curtis   

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
454 Jill Court
Incline Village, NV 89451
cell 775-722-9901 
fax 815-301-3958
www.greenbatteries.com

Follow me: http://twitter.com/curtisrandolph
                       
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Friday, October 9, 2009, 10:13:50 PM, you wrote:

Hello, my name is Mark Kodiak Ukena, I will be hiking the Appalachian Trail starting this february of 2010, and was hoping to bring with me my Canon 5D, but I can’t seem to find anything that will be able to charge my batteries while on the trail. 

The battery charger I have is a 
Canon CG – 580, 
INPUT:  100V – 240V
               22VA(100V)
       -30VA(240V)
OUTPUT:  8.4V  DC 1.2A
INPUT:  0.24A(100V) – 0.14(240V)
      E215051

The batteries are the 
BP – 511 
7.4V 2000mAh Li-ion

I figured that there isn’t anything made yet to charge these by sun, do you have any suggested set-ups that would allow me to charge these, 

-like a roll-up solar panel, connecting to some kind of power converter with an AC outlet, so I could just plug the battery charger directly into it.

I can’t seem to find anything remotely close, what do you think?
any help is greatly appreciated, if you have something I could purchase that could do this, that would be even better, thanks,
Mark

Re: solar powered battery chargers for a DSLR

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Hello Mark,

The best way to charge your batteries with a solar panel, in my opinion, is to use a car adapter on your charger. If you used an ac adapter and a solar panel that would probably work too but you would have to get a bigger solar panel because of the power losses in the ac dc conversion process. I can only guess what those losses would be but there will definitely be power losses when you use a power converter. 

What you will need to do is to figure out – even if you have to guess – how fast your device(s) will use up the power that you expect to charge with a solar panel. i.e.- if your camera uses its battery in three hours of use, you will need to get a solar panel and charger combination that will charge your battery in approximately the same time. If your camera uses its battery in 2-3 hours and your solar charger set up takes 608 hours to charge, you will find it very hard to keep the battery charged – but this really depends on your expected use of the device(s) that will be charged. My opinion is tha tit is beter to have too much charge power available, and not need it, but that is my opinion. 

Hope that helps. 

Sincerely,
 
Curtis   

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
454 Jill Court
Incline Village, NV 89451
cell 775-722-9901 
fax 815-301-3958
www.greenbatteries.com

Follow me: http://twitter.com/curtisrandolph
                       
mailto:curtis@greenbatteries.com

Friday, October 9, 2009, 10:13:50 PM, you wrote:

Hello, my name is Mark Kodiak Ukena, I will be hiking the Appalachian Trail starting this february of 2010, and was hoping to bring with me my Canon 5D, but I can’t seem to find anything that will be able to charge my batteries while on the trail. 

The battery charger I have is a 
Canon CG – 580, 
INPUT:  100V – 240V
               22VA(100V)
       -30VA(240V)
OUTPUT:  8.4V  DC 1.2A
INPUT:  0.24A(100V) – 0.14(240V)
      E215051

The batteries are the 
BP – 511 
7.4V 2000mAh Li-ion

I figured that there isn’t anything made yet to charge these by sun, do you have any suggested set-ups that would allow me to charge these, 

-like a roll-up solar panel, connecting to some kind of power converter with an AC outlet, so I could just plug the battery charger directly into it.

I can’t seem to find anything remotely close, what do you think?
any help is greatly appreciated, if you have something I could purchase that could do this, that would be even better, thanks,
Mark

Re: Looking for ULSD C cells

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Hello Ted,

No one makes a Ultra Low Self Discharge(ULSD) C or D cell, at least not that I have been able to receive and test. Several suppliers have claimed to but they do not test to be truly ULSD cells after brief testing. Perhaps this is because consumers want both ULSD and high capacity and these are competing features of the NiMH battery type. I have not seen both things in the same battery. You can get a good balance of these two characteristics in some batteries but when you really push either the charge retention and/or capacity features you affect the other. Does that make sense?

The general basis of ULSD is that the higher the capacity of NiMH cell the more pronounced the self discharge so there is really no one that makes a true ULSD C or D cell. This is not an absolute thing but it is a god generalization. 

Folks that want that ULSD charge retention feature of the “new” ULSD NiMH types, use a battery size adapter to make the AA cells work in a device that uses C or D cells. 

You can find those on our battery adapters page in a couple of different types, They are very popular. 

http://www.greenbatteries.com/batteryholders1.html

Hope that helps. 

Sincerely,
 
Curtis   

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
454 Jill Court
Incline Village, NV 89451
cell 775-722-9901 
fax 815-301-3958
www.greenbatteries.com

Follow me: http://twitter.com/curtisrandolph
                       
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Friday, September 25, 2009, 5:59:39 AM, you wrote:

Hi 
Are the Ultralast cells listed here: http://www.greenbatteries.com/ul30mahnicba.html
ultra low self discharge?  If not do you sell any ULSD/hybrid c cells?
 
Thanks,
 
Ted

Re: Looking for ULSD C cells

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Hello Ted,

No one makes a Ultra Low Self Discharge(ULSD) C or D cell, at least not that I have been able to receive and test. Several suppliers have claimed to but they do not test to be truly ULSD cells after brief testing. Perhaps this is because consumers want both ULSD and high capacity and these are competing features of the NiMH battery type. I have not seen both things in the same battery. You can get a good balance of these two characteristics in some batteries but when you really push either the charge retention and/or capacity features you affect the other. Does that make sense?

The general basis of ULSD is that the higher the capacity of NiMH cell the more pronounced the self discharge so there is really no one that makes a true ULSD C or D cell. This is not an absolute thing but it is a god generalization. 

Folks that want that ULSD charge retention feature of the “new” ULSD NiMH types, use a battery size adapter to make the AA cells work in a device that uses C or D cells. 

You can find those on our battery adapters page in a couple of different types, They are very popular. 

http://www.greenbatteries.com/batteryholders1.html

Hope that helps. 

Sincerely,
 
Curtis   

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
454 Jill Court
Incline Village, NV 89451
cell 775-722-9901 
fax 815-301-3958
www.greenbatteries.com

Follow me: http://twitter.com/curtisrandolph
                       
mailto:curtis@greenbatteries.com

Friday, September 25, 2009, 5:59:39 AM, you wrote:

Hi 
Are the Ultralast cells listed here: http://www.greenbatteries.com/ul30mahnicba.html
ultra low self discharge?  If not do you sell any ULSD/hybrid c cells?
 
Thanks,
 
Ted

RE: Rechargeable batteries check

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Hi Nelty,
 
The best way to get the type of detailed info from a battery that you are looking for is to use one of the battery charger/tester/analyzers that are made by LaCrosse BC900 or 700 or Maha MHC9000. You can see them on this battery testers page. http://www.greenbatteries.com/batterytesters.html or this NiMH chargers page http://www.greenbatteries.com/chargers.html
 
Most testers that will test the current capacity of the battery are great but not likely identify a “bad battery” that has charge retention issues.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Sincerely,
Curtis
 

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
3170 Eugene Way
Fallon, NV 89406
phone 800-790-7866 x3
fax 815-301-3958
cell 775-722-9901
www.greenbatteries.com
www.portablebatteries.com

From: Nelty
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:28 PM
To: curtis@greenbatteries.com
Subject: Rechargeable batteries check

Hi,

 

I’m looking for a tool that could measure if the rechargeable batteries are good or bad. We will primarily use it for two situations:

  1. When purchasing new rechargeable batteries – we want to be able to test the bad one, i.e those that are new but don’t hold their charge.
  2. Old rechargeable batteries – to check to see if it’s time to replace it.

 

Do you sell anything of that sort? Please let me know and thanks in advance for your help.

 

Regards,

 

Nelty

RE: Rechargeable batteries check

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Hi Nelty,
 
The best way to get the type of detailed info from a battery that you are looking for is to use one of the battery charger/tester/analyzers that are made by LaCrosse BC900 or 700 or Maha MHC9000. You can see them on this battery testers page. http://www.greenbatteries.com/batterytesters.html or this NiMH chargers page http://www.greenbatteries.com/chargers.html
 
Most testers that will test the current capacity of the battery are great but not likely identify a “bad battery” that has charge retention issues.
 
Hope that helps.
 
Sincerely,
Curtis
 

Responsible Energy Corporation
Curtis Randolph – CEO
3170 Eugene Way
Fallon, NV 89406
phone 800-790-7866 x3
fax 815-301-3958
cell 775-722-9901
www.greenbatteries.com
www.portablebatteries.com

From: Nelty
Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 2:28 PM
To: curtis@greenbatteries.com
Subject: Rechargeable batteries check

Hi,

 

I’m looking for a tool that could measure if the rechargeable batteries are good or bad. We will primarily use it for two situations:

  1. When purchasing new rechargeable batteries – we want to be able to test the bad one, i.e those that are new but don’t hold their charge.
  2. Old rechargeable batteries – to check to see if it’s time to replace it.

 

Do you sell anything of that sort? Please let me know and thanks in advance for your help.

 

Regards,

 

Nelty