i was unclear, the major brand (actually one of the two, not rayovac, it's the fox network or pbs to teh cbs,abc,nbc, not
really a third manufacturer at all it seems (after they buried rechargable
alkaline i dare say that.. i have th eoriginal charger from before
they stole the patent to not market it at all)

well, ok the cells, each of the 4 that comes in the package -explains
why the brick competition bundled it in the office stores a few weeks
ago!- is 1850, and you get 4 for 40 bucks... i don't know what
the ac adapter puts out, only that it must exceed what the swithch
we paid 20 bucks for and use to replace the hot brick we paid
extra to casio for for our web orderd direct from factory (turns out that
the shack is selling it locally for a lot less) casio keyboard...

live and learn

frankly, any day now the lion aa's should be here.. lol. and of course

my most important need
is for a solar thing to make smoke signals.. i mean talk with