Well I hate to discard anything, and am forever collecting stuff that would otherwise find its way into the land-fill. So here is my salvaged battery pack with my D-25s, V6's, and battpack wal-wart (I have another WW for the D-25):
It was originally intended as a 12 hour battery for a camcorder, but has aged some. However, for a D25, I figure its good for 12-15 hours so far. To me, it sound better that the 3 wal-warts I've tried running the 25 off of, but as non of them are listed as regulated, the RS wal-warts might be better. It ran down once when I left it plugged to the 25, even though it was off, after 36 hours (a weekend). Now I unplug at night and I find if I charge it about twice a week over night it never runs down. Its probably more than it needs, but lead-acid holds up to a little over-charging and the wall-wart I use only puts out 500ma.
FWIW, here is a pic of my main desk:
Just right of bottom-center is the catalog case that I use as a tool box for when I travel to other offices. I use one of the side pockets to hold the d25, a cd wallet and the pack lays flat on the bottom at one end, and I put my V6s on top. All in all it works well with everything else I have to keep in the case (crimp tools, some cable, a small tacklebox with misc., disk wallets, notebook, replacement part of the day, etc.) With its metal body, I don't worry much about it getting crushed by something else in the case.
I am starting to play with some ni-cad packs that I have access to and would like to get a small solar panel to put in the window (maybe should have put this in the DIY forum?).
Anyway, I hope I haven't bored ya'll too much.
It was originally intended as a 12 hour battery for a camcorder, but has aged some. However, for a D25, I figure its good for 12-15 hours so far. To me, it sound better that the 3 wal-warts I've tried running the 25 off of, but as non of them are listed as regulated, the RS wal-warts might be better. It ran down once when I left it plugged to the 25, even though it was off, after 36 hours (a weekend). Now I unplug at night and I find if I charge it about twice a week over night it never runs down. Its probably more than it needs, but lead-acid holds up to a little over-charging and the wall-wart I use only puts out 500ma.
FWIW, here is a pic of my main desk:
Just right of bottom-center is the catalog case that I use as a tool box for when I travel to other offices. I use one of the side pockets to hold the d25, a cd wallet and the pack lays flat on the bottom at one end, and I put my V6s on top. All in all it works well with everything else I have to keep in the case (crimp tools, some cable, a small tacklebox with misc., disk wallets, notebook, replacement part of the day, etc.) With its metal body, I don't worry much about it getting crushed by something else in the case.
I am starting to play with some ni-cad packs that I have access to and would like to get a small solar panel to put in the window (maybe should have put this in the DIY forum?).
Anyway, I hope I haven't bored ya'll too much.
