Re: Wishing for an off-topic mail list with debian-user participants (or most of them)

[Terence <terence.john@gmail.com>]

I would join an off-topic list as I have seen many interesting off-topic topics raised here over the last couple of decades (when you measure time in decades it's probably time to go back to counting in years!).

Terence

On Tue, 17 Aug 2021 at 20:37, <rhkramer@gmail.com> wrote:

On Tuesday, August 17, 2021 03:26:19 PM Weaver wrote:
> On 18-08-2021 04:56, rhkramer@gmail.com wrote:
> > Somewhat relevant to the subject of an off-topic mailing list, I'm now
> > puzzling over why an NiMH AA battery tested to hold 18 maHrs seems to
> > power an LED flashilight for many hours longer than an NiMH AAA battery
> > tested to hold 120 maHrs (ratio is like 24 hours to 3 hours -- how can
> > that possibly be?  (I'd give a few more details if I was actually
> > askinjg the question on that off- topic mail list.
>
>  ... and I hope another Debian-user will be able to help you.
> Cheers!

Thanks, I think I puzzled it out ;-)

I guess the measure of the charge (18 maHrs vs. 120 maHrs) is not the charge
"contained" in the battery, but instead the amount of charge required to bring
it up to the desired charge (presumably by voltage) -- my guess is the AA
battery is in much better condition than the AAA battery and requires less
charge to bring it up to "full charge".

PS: s/battery/cell/g