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by skyshine
4035 days ago
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I've been using low self discharge NiMH batteries for years. I find they are better than Alkaline for almost everything. They are fine in all my remotes. Last for months. It is only a couple of items that just don't work with any NiMH batteries. The smoke detector and a clock. It's not that they run dry quickly. The smoke detector fails within 24 hours (gives a battery low warning siren) and a clock that just doesn't work. |
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I don't mean they are bad. I mean that putting a ~5$ battery set in a remote, in a place where you're going to recharge it perhaps once or twice, can't justify the premium over just buying cheap alkalines the two or three times, max, you'll be changing batteries. (Heck, the stupid cheap ones the remotes typically ship with tend to last a couple of years themselves.) They work, and if you're in my position where you already have them, use them, but I would recommend against buying NiMH of any kind explicitly for your remotes.