Has anyone tried those rechargeable 2500 mAh battery packs ,

[bill(de)]

for the older Whites that are sold on E bay ?

 

[jlorang]

I am running a set now. I have used the battery for only 2 hours so far.
I tried to let the DFX run to see how long they last but it turned it self off.
I am running Energizer 2500 nmh and using there 15 minute charger.
I also use the batterys in my digital camera with good sucess.

 

[bill(de)]

pull the pinpoint trigger or press a keypad after so many minutes, however i was wondering about the "C" cell pack sold on E bay and it says you can use the Whites 4.8 charger to charge them. Thanks for responding and if it comes to that i may try the individual batteries in the battery pack but would need to get another charger and that's why i'm interested in that particular item .Thanks again. HH Bill

 

[Nevada Gary]

n/t

 

[jlorang]

I did some testing with my DFX and found the following.

Setup was MixMode, Stock Coil, AC sen 68, DC 30.

In search mode current draw was 60ma
Target Vol 56 78ma
Target Vol 93 93ma
Backlight max 120ma

Changing other settings resulted in min change to current draw.

Taking a average of 70ma a 2500ma battery pack should last 35hours.
The older and number of recharges this time will be shorter.
Energizer NiHH AA 2500ma can be recharged 500 times.
Fast charging will shorten the life cycles. Slow charging gives longer life.

Batterys less than 2100ma can ber recharged up to 1000 times.

Still the 2500ma batterys can be found for about $2 each in packs of 8.
Some NiMH charges come with car adaptors to charge batterys from a 12V source.

Note on Volumn: I read on one of the forums the user should trun the volumn
to max and use the volumn controls on the headphone to control the sound level. This will shorten battery run time.

You should set the volumn this way.

Turn the headset volumn all the way up.
Set MD vol when on target a little higer than you like.
Turn down the headset control to the volumn you like.
Now set the threshold sound to as low as you can still hear it.

This will allow you to still trun up the headset when needed to hear faint signals.

This will save battery run time.