walkdude Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 I've been through a few plain batteries already but I was wondering if I could put alkaline rechargables such as pure energy brand in my unit and use the built-in charge function without damaging my unit? On a side question, On this page, it states it's compatible with NiCd type batteries, but on the back of my unit it has a Recycle NiMH sticker on it...So is the unit compatible with either standard to charge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 delete all I wrote and insert: aha... this claims to be NiCd not NiMH. Better check the manual first. Ok you may be right that NiCd and NiMH both work. Perhaps it can sense which is which somehow. But alkaline rechargeable completely different. These charging circuits rely on a few millivolts difference in battery voltage when "cooked", so no way it would work as is a function of type of battery. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfbp Posted February 28, 2011 Report Share Posted February 28, 2011 Looks from the manual (this is weeeeeird) that the 510 uses NiCd and the 610 uses NiMH. What the heck is going on? I'll bet there's an NVRAM setting distinguishing the two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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