can i use rechargeables for a hair trimmer?

You'll be ok. Dry cells drop below 1.2 volts before being exhausted. Some things can be damaged by using Ni-Cads etc because their peak current delivery is so much higher than a dry cell and if, say, a motor is stalled could burn it out. But not much chance of this with a hair clipper.;-)

It should work out okay, since these hair trimmers are very simple, and there is normaly no sophisticated electronics that would be sensitive to the type of batteries used.

Because the chargeable batteries under load are usually in the area of 1.2 Volts under load, the trimmer may seem to run a little sluggish.

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JANA _____

Should the fact that NiMH are 1.2v (as opposed to 1.5V of non-rechareable batteries) potentially damage the trimmer?

Obviously I am asking because no one at WAHL support even bother to reply to my emails.

Nicads also have less internal resistance and can supply more current to motors than Nimh

greg

Hi Greg...

I respectfully suggest that you have that backwards :)

Take care.

Ken

I have got 24 NIMH cells. I use them in a Kodak digicam, an el-cheapo Philips travel shaver, a succession of ever cheaper and feature richer portable CD mp3 players, and as stopgaps in a wireless keyboard, a flashlight, the igniter in a gas stove, various remote control handsets... They are so cheap nowadays. With the shaver, compared with alkalines, the sudden arrival of the discharged state can be a pain (literally) if it starts to stall while chomping on a two or three day growth of beard, but I can live with that.