Natural Science Forum / Chemistry / Electrochemistry / June 2007

Surprised that an unused alkaline-battery-powered  "tap light"
installed in my car died in under a month, I looked for a correlation
between shelf life and temperature.
The interior of a car can easily reach 140F (60C) in the summer sun.

i'm not sure how best to find what i'm looking for.  i'm looking for
some batteries to use as storage batteries at an outdoors base camp.
base camp is often a couple miles from drive in, the trail is all too
often wet and muddy, and people are already hauling as much as they

If I a consumer device such as a cordless drill, can swap out the NiCD cells
and replace them with NiMH cells --- and expect the battery charger to
function properly?
I have a Craftsman 18v cordless drilll with a collection of sub-C cells in