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rechargeable batteries outlast alkaline batteries

March 4, 2010

Back in October I wrote a rechargeable battery blog post about my confusion with the use of rechargeable specifically in wireless lavaliere microphones.  After a few months of investigations, and spearheading a movement to have a defective battery charger recalled, I released my findings in this article in the January/February edition of EventDV Magazine.  My [...]

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battery-charger-meltdown-part-4

January 22, 2010

February 10, 2010 Update:
LaCrosse announced it has identified the problem behind the rash of battery charger meltdowns and is voluntarily replacing the affected A/C adapter, which is outputting too much voltage. If you have a LaCross BC-9009 purchased between October 1st 2009 and January 15, 2010 and your A/C adapter has the roman numeral [...]

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What’s the deal with rechargeable batteries?

October 23, 2009

I’m in the process of replacing my Sennheiser Evolution 100 lav mic systems with the new Sennheiser Evolution 100  G3 ones (because they have diversity) and decided to revisit my battery choices.
In the past I was simply using Alkaline AA’s from Costco (Kirkland) but didn’t like the fact that I was constantly throwing them away, [...]

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