[Elecraft] Portable Battery tests

[Al Lorona]

Howie this is excellent data. Thank you for your work in this area.

The table really clearly shows the tradeoffs between cost, weight, volume, capacity and everything else. Alkaline batteries do pretty well for themselves, although I'm not sure why the voltage for 8 cells is listed at only 9.6 V. Is that the ending voltage after the discharge tests?

The measurement that caught my eye is the third-to-the-last column, "MAH ACTUAL % OF ADVERTISED" because I abhor false advertising and go out of my way to boycott it. I'd say those at 0.90 and above are acceptable, while the ones at the bottom should be ashamed of themselves. QuickCable at 11% of advertised? Really?

Al  W6LX