Yeah that’s the thing, battery sizes already have standards. We need to force the industry to use them though instead of the wild west diarrhea that is current LIon and LiPo batteries.
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scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
I think rechargeable is overall better than needing a thousand batteries that you just throw away to sit in a landfill, but agree they desperately need to 1) Normalize and standardize batteries and 2) Not use shitty ones that need charging every 2 day. We have standardized rechargeable AA and AAA batteries, if anything just encourage using those.
Carighan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Problem with rechargeable AA and AAA batteries is that they need complicated chargers. Putting a charger for those into a device will make it unnecessarily big. There’s also the issue with the charge cycles they can take. I believe they have a maximum of around 100 charge cycles while lithium ion batteries are more around 1000 cycles.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
they need complicated chargers.
This problem was solved 40 years ago.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
What are you talking about? I literally just bought a charger today for AA and AAA batteries for $15 today so I’d have 2 chargers at home. I’m still using my original AA rechargeable batteries after 6 years now. Are you saying that’s somehow worse than single use batteries? My rechargeables last just as long as alkaline ones and I haven’t had to buy batteries in years.
Check your misinformation.
5gruel@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Man chill, he’s right, single use batteries have a higher energy desires than rechargable ones. And somewhere everybody is misreading that OP was talking about built-in chargers.
Not an argument not to use rechargable ones though
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That poster is still a dingus, because lithium battery chemistries require even more complicated charging circuitry than NiMH or NiCd. Lithium ion powered devices also have “complicated chargers” built into them, so it’s a non-argument anyway.
What’s true is that lithium ion has higher energy density than NiCd or NiMH. What’s not true is the notion that consumer primary cells (alkaline or zinc-carbon) have more capacity than NiMH, because they don’t. A brand name alkaline AA cell has around 2200-2400 mAh available, but a really good quality (i.e. not Amazon Basics or whatever other cheap horeshit) NiMH AA can have up to 3000. NiMH chemistry also handles high current loads significantly better than alkaline, which is important for high drain devices (cameras, flashlights, motorized toys) but less important for low drain devices expected to have a long shelf life (remotes).
phx@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Xbox360 managed both. You either plugged in the pack with two AAA’s or you could use the one with a rechargeable battery that fit the exact same slot.
Seems a good compromise to me.
Meanwhile, Sony went with an internal battery but had a standard USB connector.
Nowadays, you can get an Xbone controller and still choose a replaceable battery pack or a rechargeable one, and it has a USB-C connector. Standard connector, choose of battery feels like a good way to go for me.
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Xbox has consistently had my favorite controllers. Being able to hot swap batteries makes for such a better experience than seeing the “battery low” notification and either being on an umbilical cord or setting the controller down entirely until it’s charged
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 7 months ago
You do realize there are rechargeable lithium AA and AAA batteries, right?
The AA and AAA are just a form factor with a half dozen different mainstream chemistries depending on what you want to use.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 7 months ago
All the batteries in my house are double A and Triple A rechargeable. Use them for the Xbox and the remotes.
But I agree with OP sick of batteries that last one to two days. And cables today suck. Back in the old days the charger got with my phone lasted for years. Now it seems the cables lucky they last 6 months.
vonxylofon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
WTH do people do with their cables? I haven’t had one fray/fail on me… ever, and I pay zero attention to them.
ultratiem@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Yeah this. Last cable had fray was nearly 20 years ago and it was cheap junk, known to buckle under use. But these days, even $5 cables from 7/11 are quite decent.
I guess stop trying to hang elephants with them? 🤷♂️
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 7 months ago
This is how I do it too, we just got a second charger so we could keep more than 4 charged, mostly for remotes and controllers. Agree with cables, I’ve had shit luck with anything from Amazon, it’s about a 50/50 shot if the cable will last more than a month, I’d be happy to hear where people buy quality cables.