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Shame on me - I bought a second Panasonic cordless phone after the first one went through batteries like sh*t through a goose. Second one (different model) did the same thing.
Stay away from cordless phones and other low-drain devices that use Ni-Cad batteries... Ni-Cads like to be slammed - drained fast, charged fast. Lith-Ions and the new Lith-paste batteries are a lot better in low drain devices, they exhibit less memory effect... NiMH (Nickel Metal Hydride) are also good but not as good as the Liths. And lead-acid, if you can take the weight are probably the most reliable - a lot of waist-packs for broadcast cameras are lead-acids, temperature doesn't affect them, they display very little, if any, memory and when the plates start getting corroded it's easy enough to clean them - just hook them up in serial to one pole of a higher voltage circuit and it'll burn off the crud.
Bren R.
