Internal cell type of saber battery?

[ssybert]

Anyone know the internal cell type of a saber battery? Is it AA style cells? I want to pick up a couple dead saber batteries to tear apart and build up a couple single use batteries out of Energizer lithium cells. I'd like to have a battery I can put away with shelf life of 10+ years and not worry about it discharging or having to maintain it.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

[Tony.RI]

Anyone know the internal cell type of a saber battery? Is it AA style cells? I want to pick up a couple dead saber batteries to tear apart and build up a couple single use batteries out of Energizer lithium cells. I'd like to have a battery I can put away with shelf life of 10+ years and not worry about it discharging or having to maintain it.

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Scott

Here are some pics I took from when I opened up a dead pack:
http://batboard.batlabs.com/viewtopic.p ... 08#p359359


Your best bet would probably be to try and find a purpose-built AA battery pack, (if anyone made one that is.)

[ssybert]

The cells look like 123 batteries so it's not going to be cost effective for me to try and outfit it myself. thanks for the photos!

I did a little more digging and came up with a Multiplier battery PN: M4595-LP. It's a non-rechargeable Lithium pack with a 10yr shelf life and will work down to -40c. It's 9V instead of the standard 7.2 and is a whopping 4200mah. So far I've found it available for $68.00. I'll keep looking for a better price but I'm probably going to go this route. A 10year maintainence free battery for $68 is cheap insurance.

Thanks for the help with the internals of the pack.

Scott

[Tom in D.C.]

Here's the one I use. It never seems to die and it's rechargeable.

http://www.cutratebatteries.com/product ... -batteries

And don't let that photo on Cutrate's website fool you. The actual height
of the battery is exactly 2.0 inches.

[williamh]

i think they are called sub C batterys

[jban]

I bought one of the Cutrate batteries. Tom is right, 2 inches high. Great battery, left the radio in the truck for about 2 weeks. Poped in Impress charger and had red light for about 5 minutes. It was still full charge.

[Tony.RI]

I bought one of the Cutrate batteries. Tom is right, 2 inches high. Great battery, left the radio in the truck for about 2 weeks. Poped in Impress charger and had red light for about 5 minutes. It was still full charge.

I think I need to start saving for a couple. On a side note, will the standard gang-charger charge the Li-Ion safely?

[N4KVE]

I bought one of the Cutrate batteries. Tom is right, 2 inches high. Great battery, left the radio in the truck for about 2 weeks. Poped in Impress charger and had red light for about 5 minutes. It was still full charge.

I think I need to start saving for a couple. On a side note, will the standard gang-charger charge the Li-Ion safely?

No, you would need a Tri Chem charger or an Impress charger. GARY N4KVE