[ARC5] Battery Report

[Richard Knoppow]

     I've found plenty of leaking carbon-zinc batteries but I 
think you may be right that they did not leak as often. The gunk 
they exude when leaking is different: carbon-zinc is acid while 
alkaline batteries are, what else, alkaline. All in all I agree 
that there are no completely leak free dry cells. One just has to 
keep after them. Even mercury cells leaked, found plenty of old 
bias cells that had gunked up everything around them, but, they 
were all very old.

On 2/2/2020 12:38 PM, Robert Eleazer wrote:
> It seems to me that the old carbon zinc cells (which I believe 
> the Sunbeam cells from Dollar Tree represent) were less likely 
> to leak than the modern alkalines.  I think they did less 
> damage, tooi. Remember when Everyready advertised leak proof 
> cells and that they would replace the flashlight if required?  
> I think they stopped that when the alkalines came out.
> As for as rechargable cells, the LI-Ion types seem to be far 
> superior to nicads and NIMH when it comes to holding a charge.  
> I do have a couple of 18657 Li-Ion cells that arrived brand new 
> and dead with no re-charging and a couple more that died after 
> a short service life.
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
>
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Richard Knoppow
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