Batteries for Meg

Mephisto26

I`m just curios who is using what and how it works and how much it is and how easy it is to get...

Any of you uses rechargeables??? Or you just sold them togehter or...just hit me with as much details as you can...

Thanks in advance, your ideas are very much appreciated...

Cheers
Patrick

Skipbreather

Hi Patrick-

You'll find a good discussion of Meg batteries in this thread:


http://www.rebreatherworld.com/megal...s-30-each.html

Read it all. Also, rechargeables are not the best choice for the Meg. Their steep voltage drop off w/ end of charge isn't a good thing for for a modern Rebreather. Even the simple 5AA alkaline packs last so long that the wear & tear of opening and closing your battery compartment- to top off rechargeables- cannot really be justified.

Ken

__________________
"Entropy RULES! Enjoy the interim."

tumbler

I use the standard spot-welded alkaline packs that ISC provides. They cost $30 for two and you can expect to get about 30 hours of dive time out of them. At a total cost of $1 per hour of dive time, these seem perfectly reasonable to me. The only downside is that you have to think a little ahead and get them ordered. I tend to keep a soldering iron with me so I can make up some new packs if I have to.

I was tempted to make up some Lithium packs, but for me, the *risks associated with them outweigh the advantages. Lately I've been tempted to get a spot welder so I can make my own packs... Not so much to save money, but for the added convenience of being able to make them on short notice.


* There is a VERY small risk of lithium cells catching fire spontaneously. Some would argue that the chances of this are so small that the actual risk becomes theoretical, while others suggest that there is a more realistic chance of this happening because of manufacturing defects in the cells themselves.