[Frameworks] Bolex EL Power question

[Scott Dorsey]

> The only kind of battery that comes as one big singular thing is Sealed Lead Aci
> d, essentially a miniu-version of a car battery.

Yes.  All of the Bescor belts I have seen were either AGM lead-acid batteries
or gel-cell lead-acid batteries.  They are heavy, but cheap and very difficult
to damage.  However, they charge in a very different way than NiCds and NiMH
batteries, you will want to replace them with newer lead-acid types which
won't cost much.

As far as replacing NiCd types with NiMH types, you can do this if you are
only trickle charging, but the high-rate NiCd chargers will rapidly destroy
the NiMH batteries.  The NiMH batteries are a lot higher capacity and have
higher peak current too, but they are also less rugged than the NiCd types.

If you put NiMH cells into the battery pack of a CP-16 for instance, the
rather crude Cinema Products charger will wreck them pretty quickly.  On
the other hand, they'll be fine in a Scoopic with the slow charger.
--scott