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Well after waiting a month and two days (Order was placed on November 15th, it is now December 17th) I finally received my "Protected 10440 Batteries" from DealExtreme.com. Here are my thoughts on them.
They more or less do what they are supposed to. They charge up to 4.2V and cut off around 2.8. It took me roughly an hour and a half to charge them up. My unprotected 10440's don't take as long but that's because I re-charge them before they hit the 3.0V mark (Usually 3.5V I recharge). There is one problem however. They are slightly longer than the standard AAA size battery. I couldn't find my ruler, but they look to be a tad less than 1/2 of a millimeter longer than the standard. Please refer to the images I've enclosed.
The extra length shouldn't be too much of a problem. I mean all of the devices have springs in them so your spring will just get compressed a tad more or to make things even easier you can trim the springs a bit. I personally hated the unprotected 10440's because I've had a few issues with them so for those of you that require these types of batteries, go for these instead or use a flexdrive so that you can use standard alkaline AAA's or NiMh AAA's. My first couple of builds used a Rkcstr driver so I guess I'm stuck with these 10440's.
They more or less do what they are supposed to. They charge up to 4.2V and cut off around 2.8. It took me roughly an hour and a half to charge them up. My unprotected 10440's don't take as long but that's because I re-charge them before they hit the 3.0V mark (Usually 3.5V I recharge). There is one problem however. They are slightly longer than the standard AAA size battery. I couldn't find my ruler, but they look to be a tad less than 1/2 of a millimeter longer than the standard. Please refer to the images I've enclosed.
The extra length shouldn't be too much of a problem. I mean all of the devices have springs in them so your spring will just get compressed a tad more or to make things even easier you can trim the springs a bit. I personally hated the unprotected 10440's because I've had a few issues with them so for those of you that require these types of batteries, go for these instead or use a flexdrive so that you can use standard alkaline AAA's or NiMh AAA's. My first couple of builds used a Rkcstr driver so I guess I'm stuck with these 10440's.
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. Guess I didn't read carefully enough, Sorry.
