On Aug 20, 7:09*pm, Willie The Wimp
wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 04:31:37 -0700 (PDT), Bob Villa wrote:
In the past (and when on sale) I would buy ROV batteries...and they
would always fail prematurely for me.
Then I would think to myself, how could a big company still be in
business that made a faulty product. *So I would try again.
Last time was a 5 year rated lithium 9Volt I put in a smoke
detector...it failed (detector started short beep) after 2 weeks!

I don't have problems with Duracell or Energizer. (I don't own stock
in these companies)

ROV flashlights used to be even worse.

I havent bought anything ROV in at least 25 years.

They sell Fuji batteries priced very reasonably around here. I've had
no problems with 'em.

* Willie

My wife still has her ROV flashlight she got when she was a brownie.
My daughter used it on her first GS camping trip, hopefully so will
her daughter. We are talking over 40 years here.I have one that is
nearly as old that I keep in my night stand.

Jimmie