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I don't even know when I've last updated my archlinux rig and my vm's of various distros, but the snowflake proxy's almost donated a terabyte of bandwidth for 9 days now so yeah

Not an ad for XTAR, but did y'all know some rechargeable batteries now have USB-C ports?!?! My brother definitely found it weird, lol

It's pricier than a regular eneloop though

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I could definitely buy a pair of these, but I have so much batteries and I have no more money.

I read these types of batteries are actually 3.6v Li-ion batteries stepped down to 1.5v by a buck converter built right into the battery itself.

But yeah these have circuitries inside that convert that voltage and they also use up the charge in the battery and I read they run 24x7 so yeah. That's one drawback.

Also multimeters will constantly report 1.5v to these kinds of batteries as long as they still have a charge. When the battery inside is used up, it'll suddenly drop to 1.1 or 1.0, which means everything that uses these batteries will just stop working right then and there.

I read new ones will "emulate" an alkaline battery. Of course those are even pricier and I'd be a fucking idiot to buy something I definitely don't need.

I'll stick to eneloops but I'll be interested with this regardless

viharm Mar 26

@reallylazybear
Yes, I was surprised to see these at Costco recently.

They are expensive, but offer the advantage of not having to carry a bulky charger, instead a cable that feeds 4 batteries from a dingle USB port. Moreover note that they are Li-ion, instead of the usual Ni-Mh.

Swings & roundabouts 😄

3d ago

@viharm Yeah they're pretty cool. There are the new types that emulate an alkaline battery but one downside I found with this kind of battery is that you can't accurately determine the voltage it currently has so you can then store them.

Plus these are lithium and lithium have a tendency to blow up or cause fires so I think it's better to just buy NiMH cells. I only found it being awesome for devices that are stringent on having 1.5v or close to it all the time

Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥Mar 25

@reallylazybear What are you doing with all those batteries? 🔋

@cgervasi Right now I'm testing their capacities and I'm picking out ones with highest caps cos some of these are > 10 years old and prolly have never been charged in a while. I have fans and flashlights that use 18650's and it'd be cool to reuse some of the ones that're still working.

The rest I'll either stash away @ 3.6v and plan for what I wanna do with them. Dead ones I'll dispose of em responsibly. I've encountered ones that don't have a voltage at all, like 0V on my multimeter.

@cgervasi Initially I'll keep ones that are still working. I'll test them from time to time. If a year passes and I still dunno what to do with them, I'll prolly donate or dispose 'em responsibly as well cos some of the ones I have are < 1000 mAh. Safe to say I have more of quantity than quality, lol

As for NiMH ones, the 3A's have been used for motion sensing lights thing and remotes. I know these discharge faster than alkalines but I read eneloops have LSD's..

@cgervasi And if these run out of juice, I have a charger so it's gonna be fine

2A's, idk where to use them. Flashlights probably but we currently don't have one that's working and the ones we have use 18650's.

Lithium-ion AA's however, they're still new and I have yet to learn more about this thing. Honestly I only have surface knowledge of this hobby I'm on. I have so much more to learn but I'm running out of money lol. I may have overspent, but it's better to have 'em ready than have none.

I just now have more things to maintain now but it's alright.

I'mma be real, but it's better than doing nothing honestly cos when you don't have friends, and you go home from work or whereever else, you just have nothing else to do maybe besides gaming, sleep, or maintain my rig.

Idk. It's prolly a temporary thing but I think batteries are cool so I'm willing to learn about. I just wish I have enough cash to learn more and then actually build something cool with what I learned..