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Originally Posted by LUTNIT
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Originally Posted by ILLusion
Personally, I'm still not a fan of Ni-MH, especially if you plan to play in any environment that is 5 degrees or colder.
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NiCd's are better in the cold? This subject has never come up before in anything that I've read, I have no experience with it, and my R/C racing friend doesnt exactly race in the snow...
Are the chemicals in NiMH batteries retarded in the cold so their output drops or something? I always chose NiMH because the mAh capacity is almost always a lot larger and you dont have to worry about memory effect (even though I know its still there to a small degree and NiCd's can often be recovered from the memory effect.) |
Well, in my experience, both NiMH and NiCAD suck in the cold, NiCAD is just marginally better. Plastic hopups are even worse in the cold as they tend to shatter. Generally rule of thumb is when it is cold, find a way to keep the gun warm, or you risk breaking your gun. I used to winter game, but, 3 or 4 hopups later, I don't anymore.
There is no question that NiMH is not as good a performer for pushing a battery in the same voltage and amperage as NiCAD however, when you have space limitations and you can get a 1100mah NiMH in the same space as a 600mah NiCAD, the NiMH is (in my experience) the better option. As you get larger, I think this changes. If you have the space to spare, get the NiCAD.