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Old 05-30-09, 06:04 AM
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Originally Posted by tatfiend
Per some Cateye manuals I have wired compute batteries should go about three years and wireless one year, dependent on usage. The average is listed for 1 hour use per day as I recall.
My experience is that number is very conservative. I use my bikes well over 1 hour a day and the batteries still last much longer.

And that was the OEM batteries which, IIRC, were Panasonics, and are not junk.
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