Portable in-car DVD batteries

[rubachuk]

I've bought an in-car dvd kit to shut the kids up on long journeys. It takes AA batteries but the manual says that they must be rechargeable batteries, as normal buy-in-tesco battery may cause the player not to work. I don't want to fork out for a pile of rechargeables and a charger.

So can I just use normal batteries anyway, and will it break it or will it just not work?

Going to be using it on a plane on batteries and then on a two week fly-drive so breaking it on the way is deffinately not an option

[puss puss]

It takes AA batteries but the manual says that they must be rechargeable batteries, as normal buy-in-tesco battery may cause the player not to work.

the manual is right

rechargeable arent expensive :thumb:

[rubachuk]

Bugger.

A dozen rechargeable and charger are probably going to be £30+ which I don't want to spend. I have a free source of normal AAs.

[MattBrown]

It will work fine, however...

Rechangable cells are 1,2v, whereas alkaline etc are 1.5, this will do no harm.

The alkaline cells "Dump" alot quicker, and as the voltage drops, in theory this could cause damage to the player.

TBF, Just use it on whatever you can get your hands on.