Nickel Cadmium or Ni-Cd,NiCd,NiCad batteries are the original type of readily available rechargeable batteries for the normal consumer or home user market.
There is lots of information on Wikipedia about the technical characteristics of these rechargeable batteries so there is little point in going into detail here,but the main things to understand are:
- Contain cadmium –nasty for the environment
- Suffer from memory effect if not fully discharged and charged regularly
- Relatively low capacity compared to new generations of rechargeable batteries
- Soon to be banned from import into Europe
Many people have been put off the idea of using rechargeable batteries because of poor experiences when using NiCd batteries,but things have moved on enormously since these were introduced.
NiCd batteries have pretty much been superseded by the much better Nickel Metal Hydride (Ni-MH) type of rechargeable batteries which offer higher capacities,no memory effect and no nasty chemicals.
So if you are still hanging on to some old NiCd batteries of have had a poor experience with them in the past,this you really should consider using rechargeable batteries again.
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