There is a Real Deals Dollar store near me. They do have AAA cells, twenty
for a buck. I bought several packages. Wonders, they won't run a three cell
light. I find out after some head scratching, that about a third of the
batteries in the packs were dead. Still a good price.

I hadn't thought of that, about the traffic lights. Sounds penny wise, and
pound foolish.

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"RickH" wrote in message
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The aluminum sounds good to me for that price, I use dollar-store
batteries (I've gotten 24 for a dollar at times) that hold up only
slightly worse than alkalines, so zinc/carbon batteries powering LED's
should be fine.

Unrelated... As for LED's we had a snowstorm here Monday as I commuted
to work. As I came to the LED-based stop-and-go lights all of them
were invisible and caked with snow, wherease the older incandescent
stop-and-go lights were clear of snow. Somebody needs to put heaters
in those new LED-based stop-and-go lights, they are pretty dangerous
in a driving ice or snowstorm, LED's cant melt snow very good I
guess. You would think the traffic companies would know this ****.