Date   : Sun, 06 Feb 2005 22:52:01 +1300
From   : Bill Keesing <zz9pluralzalpha@...>
Subject: Re: BBC Master batteries

At 10:21 p.m. 6/02/2005, Sprow wrote:
>In article <001801c50bfc$92450c70$0100000a@...>,
>    Raf <rafg1@...> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Are lithium batteries acceptable now? Remember the initial scare that
> > caused
> > Acorn to drop lithium and go for alkaline due to the occurrence of a fire
> > inside a Master with lithium batteries in situ?
>
>It very much depends on whether your motherboard still has all the recharge
>components fitted since that was the cause of the school fires. If Q2 and
>R16 are present then you should not use Lithium cells.
>
>Personally however, I can't see much advantage in using Lithium cells when
>they don't recharge since it'd be more expensive than AAs for not much gain,

Agreed. I am pretty sure lithium are really only designed for high drain 
devices and that using them in low drain devices actually can shorten their 
lives. I haven't really tried this though.