NIMh's are fairly similar in performance and power to the Alkalines, perhaps even better, so the battery gauge should be accurate. But i've heard that they also leak about 3% of their
charge daily, so good high-drain devices like a well used newt, but bad for TV remotes...
Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> random wrote:
>
> > With all this talk of batteries, I purchased some NIMh's for my
> > mp120. Only problem (of course) is the battery monitor is specced for
> > alkaline. Is there a battery monitor package that will allow me to
> > specify the type of battery in my newt and monitor the level
> > accordingly?
>
> Not that I am aware of. All battery utilities I've seen automatically
> detect the kind of batteries in the Newton, so you can't specify that
> you have something different than what the Newton think there is.
>
> -Laurent.
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