Found Out Something Else Today

[Spehro Pefhany]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:23:38 -0000, the renowned buck rojerz
<inorbit@outerspace.org> wrote:

I know it's OT, but since you brought up the thought about current per
cell...

I was given one of those little tiny digital cameras, about 2" square and
about 3/4" thick. I forget the name. Anyway, the single AAA battery
never would last long enough to even fill the memory with images, so I
checked it out. It was drawing a whopping 850ma from a single AAA
battery! No wonder it was given away. I will concede that there MAY
have been something wrong with it, however it took quite good pictures
and worked well, with the exception of battery life. It was supposedly
the smallest digital camera in the world, at the time of its release and
I don't mean a video camera, rather a digital, single image camera that
you could download images from, to a computer thru USB. No flash. res
was 1024x768(probably interpolated)

Have you tried a 750mAh NiMH AAA cell?

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany
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[buck rojerz]

Spehro Pefhany <Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat>>
wrote in news:tlth101g9u2hfpuessrf93g0nck3sqfc06@4ax.com:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:23:38 -0000, the renowned buck rojerz
inorbit@outerspace.org> wrote:

I know it's OT, but since you brought up the thought about current per
cell...

I was given one of those little tiny digital cameras, about 2" square
and about 3/4" thick. I forget the name. Anyway, the single AAA
battery never would last long enough to even fill the memory with
images, so I checked it out. It was drawing a whopping 850ma from a
single AAA battery! No wonder it was given away. I will concede that
there MAY have been something wrong with it, however it took quite
good pictures and worked well, with the exception of battery life. It
was supposedly the smallest digital camera in the world, at the time
of its release and I don't mean a video camera, rather a digital,
single image camera that you could download images from, to a computer
thru USB. No flash. res was 1024x768(probably interpolated)

Have you tried a 750mAh NiMH AAA cell?

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

No, I didn't have any at that time. I since have ordered some AAA Nimh
batts thru eBay, that are supposed to be 700mAh, but in a low current
device like a voice recorder, the NMimh AAA bats don't last near as long
as a standard Duracell AAA Alkaline. Of course, condsidering they came
thru eBay, who knows what sort of crappy nimh batteries they really are.
I was really disappointed in them.

But I was just so astounded at the design of that camera. I mean
850ma is more like what I would expect a design with a D cell to call
for. Certainly not a AAA. Glad I didn't pay money for the camera.

Now I have an relatively low end digital camra based on what you can
buy today, that uses 4 AA batts and I have Nimh batts in it. It seems to
run forever and IT has an LCD display and flash as well. Just no use in
trying to fight with that tiny little current hog.

cheers

buck

 

[tweak]

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 18:15:42 -0000, buck rojerz
<inorbit@outerspace.org> wrote:

Spehro Pefhany <Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat
wrote in news:tlth101g9u2hfpuessrf93g0nck3sqfc06@4ax.com:

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 08:23:38 -0000, the renowned buck rojerz
inorbit@outerspace.org> wrote:

I know it's OT, but since you brought up the thought about current per
cell...

I was given one of those little tiny digital cameras, about 2" square
and about 3/4" thick. I forget the name. Anyway, the single AAA
battery never would last long enough to even fill the memory with
images, so I checked it out. It was drawing a whopping 850ma from a
single AAA battery! No wonder it was given away. I will concede that
there MAY have been something wrong with it, however it took quite
good pictures and worked well, with the exception of battery life. It
was supposedly the smallest digital camera in the world, at the time
of its release and I don't mean a video camera, rather a digital,
single image camera that you could download images from, to a computer
thru USB. No flash. res was 1024x768(probably interpolated)

Have you tried a 750mAh NiMH AAA cell?

Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

No, I didn't have any at that time. I since have ordered some AAA Nimh
batts thru eBay, that are supposed to be 700mAh, but in a low current
device like a voice recorder, the NMimh AAA bats don't last near as long
as a standard Duracell AAA Alkaline. Of course, condsidering they came
thru eBay, who knows what sort of crappy nimh batteries they really are.
I was really disappointed in them.

But I was just so astounded at the design of that camera. I mean
850ma is more like what I would expect a design with a D cell to call
for. Certainly not a AAA. Glad I didn't pay money for the camera.

Now I have an relatively low end digital camra based on what you can
buy today, that uses 4 AA batts and I have Nimh batts in it. It seems to
run forever and IT has an LCD display and flash as well. Just no use in
trying to fight with that tiny little current hog.

Try using a large cell lead acid rechargable battery.

That's what I use for a little digicam I got through a internet
promotion.
It originally used 4 AAA's but would only shoot about 12 pics before
quality started dropping, forget even using the flash which would kill
the bats in no time.
I opened it up and wired in a small micro size coaxial powere plug and
made a battery pack using a small 2.3 amp lead acid rechargable.
Made a small hard modular hard case for the battery that connected to
the bottom of the cam via the 1/2-20 thread mount for tripods.
the cam is now a bit bulkier but can take up to 200 pics between
charges. And the recycle time for the flash is down to 2 seconds.
It kmakes a good carry around cam for snap shooting on the go.

cheers

buck