Are Alkaline Batteries Designed To Be Recharged?

Battery life and laptop battery timings are two irritating things while using laptops. I have found that alkaline batteries last longer as compared to nickel-cadmium batteries. The reason is that the alkaline batteries do not suffer memory effects. Having said that, now I know you would like to know about the recharging capability of alkaline batteries.

Ironically speaking, the highly priced alkaline batteries or random access memory (RAM) batteries are not considered highly in technical reports. From some trade magazine list, I have found that they are rechargeable for only 25 to 30 times at most. In response to the high current demands, the voltage supplied to the alkaline laptop batteries drop low. Therefore, they may not be perfect for high-drain applications like digital cameras.

In my view most of the criticism faced by alkaline batteries comes from the people who actually do not deal with these batteries. They unusually term these batteries as ‘soft’ batteries. In my opinion, they can be considered as good alternatives of nickel-cadmium batteries, in term of their recharging capability. They JEDEC memory standard has introduced PC133 computer memory standard. You can explore such ratings and others to determine the technical kinds of ratings of components.