Has anyone tried one of these $40 eBay batteries...

...found this on eBay. Price sounds good but we all know what that usually means:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220396594649
Has anyone tried one?
-Alan

While the ad says "new in box", that box may well have been sitting on a shelf for more then 5 years. And if so, it's worthless. LiOH batterys begin to decay from internal self-oxidation the minute they are assembled. Even just sitting idle on a shelf, under perfect environmental conditions, they will only last for 4-7 years, after which, their capacity to hold a charge is pretty much shot.

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