[ARC5] Battery Report

[Scott Robinson]

Stating the obvious, just in case...

Lithium batteries make about 3.7 volts, not the 1.5Volts that alkaline 
and zinc-carbon one do. Their higher cost is at least partly offset by 
this fact.

PEace,

Scott

On 2/2/20 1:52 PM, Richard Knoppow wrote:
>     I suspect these are also custom branded Duracell. Duracell does make 
> a line of lithium cells and batteries. Costco also carries custom 
> branded lithium batteries, probably also Duracell.
> 
> On 2/2/2020 1:31 PM, Phillip Carpenter 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
>>
>>> 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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