> (I was talking to Joerg about this some weeks back -- there doesn't seem
> to be any really easy way to distinguish, electronically and in the
> general case, a
> NiCad/NiMH cell from a akaline or similar primary cell. Anyone know
> differently?)
>
Well, AFAIK, there's that 1.2V vs. 1.5V thing. ;-)
Cheers! Rich
Yeah, if you know they're freshly charged! :-)
The idea is that you wouldn't have to come up with some mechanical or manual method to disable charging circuitry in a device that could take both rechargeable and regular alakaline cells. ...althoug I'd have to admit the mechanical approach Philips uses here seems good: Cheap and cheerful! -- No doubt you've seen equipment where there was a manual switch to disable/enable charging, or sometimes the "official" rechargeable battery is in a pack that mechanically depresses a little switch inside the battery compartment.
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