The New Hotness

Here’s the status of the AA NiMH packs I’ve been using with the radios on our bikes, plus three packs I made up last year and have been keeping on the desk to measure their long-term storage characteristics. Click for more detail.

The “Tenergy 09 x” packs are new & unused with, frankly, disappointing capacity of about half their 2.6 Ah rating. That’s not much better than the used Tenergy packs (T9x and RTU x), which is either a Good Thing (they have good long-term stability) or a Bad Thing (they’re grossly over-rated to begin with).

The two Duracell packs are far better than any of the Tenergy packs.

The three 6-cell packs along the bottom are fading fast.

The previous test runs are there, albeit with a 1 A discharge.

This season I’ll use some Li-Ion packs that weigh twice as much with three times the capacity… plus a built-in charge gauge, pessimistic though it may be.