NiMH are great for many applications BUT they have a fairly short charged shelf life. If you
need batteries for a device you only use occasionally (e.g. a flashlight) or for an
application where you can't risk the batteries suddenly going dead over time, don't use
NiMH. ALSO, the power curve for NiMH batteries is very different from alkalines. When you get
close to the fully drained state of the battery, they will suddenly go dead. Standard alkalines, on the
other hand, drift off into dead-land much more gradually. This is very important for appls like
Palm Pilots where, with NiMH you can go from "batteries are OK" to "lost all memory" in an
instant...No good...
Kwad