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Dear Ladies & Gents,
I am new here and I was joining because my son owns some vintage B&O electronics.
We have a few optically modified Beomaster 1900 also.
My son told that his Beolink 7000 was not working properly any more so I took it and checked. I've found out that the battery pack (5 x AA NiCd) was nearly in the hands of an undertaker, so I set 5 x Eneloop (I have seen the posts here that NiMh should not work properly but I do have different experience).
NiCd do have that memory effect and will die, for sure. I am a powerboat modelling expert and I am build multicylinder engines for that purpose. Inside of this hobby I do have a lot of experience with those Eneloop cells and I did never had any issue with those. This is why I created a 5-cell pack and put that into the dedicated place. But the battery cover - not an original one - was broken.
What I am looking now is the battery cover, I did not find a source. So I am going to design that with CAD, would anybody of you be interested in the CAD-data (stl) when I have done this job?
No money wanted for that!
regards
Thomas
NiMh batteries will typically work only for a while.I believe they die fast because of the charging method and the way power is consumed from them.That's my experience, and as I understand it also the experience of others who havedone considerably many more of these than the couple of dozens I have.
NiMh may be fine in other applications with a different pattern of use, perhaps in powerboats, - I wouldn't know.I would definitely recommend NiCd, as the originals - they typically lasted for more than two decades.
Martin