What is an Oxyride Battery?
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An oxyride battery is an especially powerful, long lasting battery developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial of Tokyo for Panasonic. The oxyride battery is 1.5 times as powerful as a regular alkaline battery, allowing extended use of high-drain battery-powered devices such as digital cameras, with the ability to take up to twice as many digital pictures. Flashes also recover quicker and pictures can be taken faster. The extra power of the oxyride battery might also deliver enhanced bass in audio players, according to some.
Oxyride batteries use updated alkaline chemistry that includes a finer grained graphite and manganese dioxide, allowing a denser fill of material. With an advanced substance for the cathode or negative (-) side, called oxy nickel hydroxide the batteries maintain higher voltage. Oxyride batteries also utilize a breakthrough vacuum-pouring technology in the production process, allowing more electrolyte to be packed into each battery for increased durability. Hence, increased power and a longer life!
The oxyride battery was first introduced to the Japanese market in 2004 and has boasted an impressive demonstration, powering the 9.5 foot (2.9 meter) 'Oxyride' car. The car, built especially for the demonstration and resembling a torpedo with three bicycle wheels, carried a 110 pound (50 kilogram) female passenger laying luge-style under the drop-top canopy. Powered by two AA oxyride batteries, it traveled 213 feet (65 meters) in 74 seconds, and went a total of three quarters of a mile (1.23 kilometers) before the batteries ran dry.
In more practical terms, toy trucks will run faster, PDA's will compute longer, powered toothbrushes will brush longer, and MP3 players will crank out more tunes. In fact, with the advent of more and more digital products that require a battery power source, the oxyride battery promises a brighter and longer-lasting future.
The Panasonic brand of oxyride battery is called 'Digital Xtreme Power' and the AA and AAA oxyrides will cost about 10% more than their normal counterpart alkaline batteries.
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Can oxyride batteries also be used for polaroid cameras?
- anon29161
For the consumer, oxyride batteries are just improved alkaline batteries. They'll last longer and might have a higher initial voltage than regular alkalines. Panasonic puts them in with cameras to encourage consumers to buy them (if you can find a retailer.
- anon23439
Are Oxyride batteries less prone to exploding/bursting than regular alkaline batteries? I've recently had regular double-A's burst inside the battery well of an LCD display and ruin the unit.
- aandrews
I just purchased a Panasonic digital camera, model LS-75. It comes with and recommends 2 x AA Oxyride batteries or optionally 2xAA NiMH rechargeable. I travel and do not want to carry a converter and charger. Can I use AA Alkaline or Lithium instead?
I'll return the camera if I can't and I'm running out of time to return it so any help you can provide would be great.
Thanks - cma
Oxyrides are not rechargeable.
Panasonic cameras can use normal alkaline or rechargeable NiMH batteries. NiMH's are recommended because you can recharge them many times which means low cost per charge and less pollution. - anon8867
hi, is oxyride chargeable?
- anon8010
If Oxyride batteries are so great, then why are they only available in some obscure stores in the mid-Eastern United States. I live in Texas and no one carries them, or has even heard of them.
- tcampbell
What is the internal resistance of an Oxyride AA?
- mweber
Do the oxyride batteries have to be used exclusively for the Panasonic cameras? Where can they be found?
- libra66
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