[OZAPRS] battery for TH7DA

[Ray Wells]

For anyone considering NiMH batteries, consider the Sanyo Eneloop. They 
will hold a charge for many, many months whereas conventional NiMH 
batteries have a high self-discharge rate.

With my digital camera, conventionals would be useless in a week or two 
of just sitting there. The Eneloops have not had a charge in three 
months and I used the camera a few days back. The heat in a car hastens 
the discharge of conventionals.

Ray vk2tv


Damien Gardner Jnr wrote:
> After seeing what a battery pack from the US cost, I ended up just 
> buying the Kenwood 4xAA pack from andrews, and use NiMH's in it - i've 
> had about 12 hours of on-time out of it so far (over the last six 
> weeks), and the batteries are yet to go flat.. :)  Although granted 
> it's not tx'ing every 5 minutes like it would be if it had a GPS 
> plugged in and was sending posits.. Only downside is it won't charge 
> the batteries from the DC jack in the side (I'm yet to experiment with 
> removing the diode in the pack and seeing if it will charge them..), 
> though since I don't have a GPS to plug into the D7 since someone 
> stole my etrex, i don't really use it much other than as a normal 
> handheld these days :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> DG
>
> Damien Gardner Jnr
> VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
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> On 31/05/2009, at 12:21 PM, Ben Lindner-VK5JFK wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Has anyone replaced their battery on the Kenwood TH7DA with an after 
>> market one that has better staying power than the original.
>>
>> If so could they send me some details on where you got the battery 
>> and and what size.
>>
>> many thanks
>> Ben - VK5JFK
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