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

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.

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

#xtar #batteries #electronics #usb #archlinux #linux #debian #fedora #ubuntu #voidlinux #snowflake #tor #torproject #censorship #eneloop

Ughhh if only I was earning some more on my streaming hobby, but I'll never stoop to that level where I get cash from strangers. I prefer getting paid for the work I do in real life.

It ain't much but "AI" doesn't yet have these advanced arms and legs so it can't touch itself nor have the know-how to fix itself or its fellows physically, yet,

It can't stick a multimeter's probe on the PSU pins while the computer's running. Not a lot of people in IT space have the balls to do that, lol

I've discovered some more expensive chargers with more features and stuff like SkyRC MC3000. That shit is so fucking expensive and I prolly won't be able to use all the features it has so not now, bear.

I know I like tinkering and stuff with the best but I need more experience and patience and yes, money, so I have to work for it. Plus, I needed batteries first. What am I gonna do with a charger without some more new batteries to play with ?! lololol

#electronics #batteries

Some are so old the "fusion core recharger", as I'd like to call the xtar charger, don't even recognize them anymore. The charger touted it can revive overdischarged batteries but nope. Not even a peep.

I also found a few definitely fake 18650 cells. They're so light I could throw em a mile away if I throw at my best. I put em on, graded what I had and one only had about 200 or so mAh. There's one that the charger didn't even bother ! It recognized something's on the slot, but gave up

#xtar

I still have some money left but I might've spent too much starting out. I have yet so many stuff to learn and read.

Yeah I spent a few moolahs, including new rechargeable batteries cos I'd rather not want a firework on my workbench BUT! I have ripped out some batteries off powerbanks that have died a long time ago. Turns out the batteries are still good. Few of em only have half capacity left from the original but I got told the powerbanks are 10 or more so years old...