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Cheap Rechargeable Batteries
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From pound shop, are they safe for a landline phone ? Tia
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Any battery of the correct nominal voltage and physical size is likely to be perfectly usable. Any concern would centre on quality and at that the durability would be the issue. Rechargeables fail by holding charge for shorter and shorter periods and/or not reaching full voltage level. Buy and try out, I suggest.
I suspect cheap rechargables will be NiCd, which suffer from memory loss; in other words, if you don't let them go completely flat before you recharge them they lose capacity. Since telephones are normally put back int their charger when you finish a call, so are constantly being charged without going flat, NiCds won't be suitable. You need NiMH rechargables.