[ARC5] Battery Report

[Phillip Carpenter]

I just stopped by Costco and bought a 20 pack of the Lithium Ion AA batteries for 85 cents a piece. I’m going to take the one from Sam’s Club back. Sam’s AA18 pack is $21.98, Costco’s AA20 pack is $16.99. Big difference in savings.

The Energizer AA Lithium Ion batteries have a guaranteed 20 year shelf life and are advertised 100% leak proof.

Phillip WB4PAC 

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> On Feb 2, 2020, at 4:31 PM, Phillip Carpenter <carpenterpa at tds.net> wrote:
> 
> I just bought an 18 pack of the Lithium Ion AAs at Sam’s Club for $1.22 a piece. I noticed that the Sam’s Club brand AAs (Members Mark) are listed with a guaranteed 10 year shelf life.
> 
> Phillip WB4PAC 
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Feb 2, 2020, at 4:27 PM, Richard Knoppow <1oldlens1 at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> 
>>    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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