[ARC5] Batteries That Do Not Corrode?

[Robert Downs]

Oops, you’re right – faulty 30+ year-old memory.  It was four D-cells and a cardboard spacer in place of four F-cells to make the counterfeit lantern batteries with (of course) less mercury than a real alkaline lantern battery that we were paying for but not getting.

 

Robert Downs

 

From: arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net [mailto:arc5-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Brooke Clarke
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 9:23 PM
To: arc5 at mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [ARC5] Batteries That Do Not Corrode?

 

Hi Robert:

The Energizer 529 contains 4 each "F" cells.
http://prc68.com/I/No6.shtml#F



-- 
Have Fun,
 
Brooke Clarke
http://www.PRC68.com
http://www.end2partygovernment.com/2012Issues.html

-------- Original Message --------

I learned the hard way not to trust Duracell’s advertising and published specs.  I ran the Engineering department for a pipeline inspection company (instrumented pigs).  Around 1985 or maybe a little later, we had decided to switch our battery packs for 20” and larger tools from Silver-Zinc secondary to Alkaline primary cells, specifically using multiple 6 volt Duracell Lantern Batteries.  All went well until one day our Calgary office reported a run failure apparently due to the battery pack not lasting as long as it should.  The Lantern Battery has always been supposed to be made from four D-cells in series.  Investigation soon revealed that without warning anyone, the batteries being bought in Canada contained four C-cells and a cardboard spacer.  It was apparently done in order to be able to claim that the Duracell Lantern Batteries contained less mercury than the competition.  The new batteries were easily identified by weight.  Our entire stockpile of Lantern Batteries in Calgary and part of our stockpile in Houston proved to be these bogus batteries.  And we had paid the same price we had been paying for the D-cell version.  That fiasco took quite a while to sort out.

 

Robert Downs

 

 

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.qth.net/pipermail/arc5/attachments/20180608/46e28efe/attachment-0001.html>