[pct-l] Battery Info

[themtgoat at yahoo.com (The Mountain Goat)]

Last year, when I planned the thru-hike, I was planning on using AA
batteries for the Digital Camera (cannon) and weight out the Lithium
verses alkaline, The differences, was almost 1/2 the weight. The lithium
batteries of course have a huge advantage with power vs weight ratio...

Someone however interulted my well thought out plans, by buying me a 
Cannon SD 200 Camera. Which weighted the same , 
and already had the lithium ion battery in it. and was smaller... I of course 
took the new camera, it had a higher MP, and could take movies 
with sound. 

But back on suject, lithium is a great way to go, if you can get batteries that 
fit your appliance, I think next time, I might try to get everything lithium 
ion, so I can recharge all batteries as I go...

My appliances were:
Cell Phone - Lithium ion, rechargable...
Camera - Lithium ion, rechargable.
Head lamp - just alkalines...but used a common AAA size, glad to hear
that they now have AAA lithium!

-Mountain Goat-






Ken Powers      kdpo at gottawalk.com        
     Thu Mar  9 22:50:21 CST 2006          
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And for all you ounce weenies the Lithium batteries are lighter. I weighed 
them but cnanot find the data. I think they are each 1/2 ounce lighter. If 
you look far enough you can find AAA lithiums also. Lighter and last longer, 
but they cost quite a bit more.

Ken

		
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