clifto wrote:
RayOVac is my main brand these days. I find the quality to be as high as
any other battery, and the price is attractive.

I remember them way back when, too, with a cat and a lightning bolt on the
package.

They are not available here in Israel. I miss them and their rechargable
alkeline batteries. What ever happened to them? 10 years ago I found
they were unreliable for many handheld devices because they could
not produce the current required. However since then the amperage
needed for most portable devices has dropped so they would be perfect.

As for Energizer and Duarcell, we get the "offical name brand" batteries
here, but they are made in Singapore and have far less capacity than
the U.S. versions.

We get batteries made in Hong Kong from a company called GPT that
are as good as the Singapore batteries for less money. Office Depot (Israel)
imported some real junk as their house brand, they would swell up and leak
after about 3 months on the shelf. They now rebrand GPT batteries.

Thanks for bringing this up, people occasionaly ask me if it is worth
bringing batteries from the U.S. and I'll tell them to bring the Ray-O-Vac
ones.

Geoff.


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