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Rechargeable CR123's


Jim Gilchrist

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All this talk of rechargeable 9 V's has me thinking about another battery type, the CR123 cells that are used in some Zaxcom transmitters and Audio Ltd. DX2000 and 2020 receivers.

I own Audio Ltd. radios, and while I generally power them externally, it would be great to use rechargeable cells in those units when that's not an option, not just because of the environmental issues. The cost of the rechargeable cells is only slightly more than 2 times greater than the CR123's I'm using now and charger/battery packages seem pretty reasonable.

So is anybody using rechargeable lithium CR123 cells? And yes, I have searched the group and also recall Jeff W. bringing up this question once before but am unable to find any responses.

Best regards,

Jim

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i got a couple of cr123 rechargeables a while back when i got my zaxcom trx900 transmitters. i used them for testing only as they have approximately a third of the capacity of a non rechargeable cr123 -600mah compared to 1500mah. which roughly equates to 2 hours or 5 hours on a battery.

from what i am aware of whats available at the minute, non rechargeables seem the only way to go for production use.

also. on a job i did recently, production got in some GP brand cr123 batteries and they would barely last 4 hours compared to any of the higher end brands (duracell, panasonic etc) which would easily do 5 and half hours. maybe i got a bad batch, but maybe GP are cheaper for a reason

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