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Marsymars a day ago

You can get amazonbasics NiMH D-cell batteries for $24/4-pack.

Tricky bit is getting a good charger if you're getting them for a device that doesn't charge its own batteries.

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Dylan16807 a day ago | parent [-]

And ignore the bold text saying not to use rechargeables?

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Marsymars 9 hours ago | parent [-]

I've been ignoring those for decades with no ill effects.

If you look at the voltage curves, Alkaline batteries start at higher voltage than NiMH but drop below NiMH voltage pretty quickly, so unless you have a device that stops working when your alkaline batteries drop below 50% charge or so at 1.2V, there's no reason to avoid NiMH.

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gumby 5 hours ago | parent [-]

It my not be a big deal for a completely solid state device but definitely pay attention to those notices for anything electromechanical, the issue isn’t the voltage but the current draw. And given that your broadband device is a transmitter, it could possibly matter at the margin…which for the topic under discussions could be precisely were you need it.

	▲	Marsymars 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Can you elaborate on that? AFAIK the only real upside of the current draw properties of alkaline batteries are for very low draws where you'll get some additional runtime out of them. (e.g. I can swap the alkaline batteries in my tv remote every 5 years rather than charging the NiMH batteries every 2.5 years.)
	▲	cowlevel 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		NiMH provides higher current draw than alkaline.
	▲	Dylan16807 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		If it cared about current draw would it still say not to use lithium D cells? And I thought NiMH was better at current draw than alkaline.