On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:42:56 -0000, Ron(UK) wrote:

Peter Hucker wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:20:08 -0000, Ron(UK) wrote:

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Peter Hucker wrote:

LESS THAN A YEAR?!?!?! I have Duracells with a use by date of about 4
or 5 years in the future.

So do I. They rarely last more than a year before they leak, and some
brands even less. Before they changed from some anonymous Chinese
manufacturer to GPT, the Office Depot brand sold here lasted 3-4 months.

An awful lot of the 'Duracells' you'll find in discount places,
markets, etc. are chinese fakes. A genuine Procell PP3 has six
cylindrical cells which look like a small AAA cell. The ripoffs I`ve
seen have flat cells. You can barely tell the difference from external
appearances alone - the price should be your guide.

I've never bought any at a market, as they are cheaper in bulk from places like Rapid Electronics.

CPC are pretty good, discounted AND two boxes for the price of one.

It may have been Farnell (same company as CPC) I got them from. I use both Farnell and Rapid, whichever is cheaper. Rapid are good for NiMH.

2 packs of 10? That sounds familiar actually.

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