"Pete C." wrote in message
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Ignoramus20496 wrote:

I would like to know if my cell phone battery situation is of general
nature, or perhaps I had very unusual bad luck.

We have a Uniden cordless phone system that works very well, except
that original batteries (BT-0003) have gone bad over the years.

Attempts to replace them with "Non-OEM", "Equivalent" bateries did not
work well, basically those are junk that is falsely advertised. The
sellers simply know that the batteries are uneconomical to return, so
they sell junk that will not hold charge.

This particular battery BT-0003 seems to be no longer available from
Uniden. When it was available years ago, it cost as must as a new
handset.

That price relationship leads me to believe that cordless phone
manufacturers purposely equip their phones with substandard batteries
or charging circuits, in order to sell more cordless phones.

I would like to know whether there is some "honest" cordless phone
systems that, say, use rechargeable AA batteries or something like
that that has easy, economical replacement, or where good replacement
batteries are available from known honest sellers.

Thanks

i

Buy quality replacement cells from DigiKey and rebuild the batteries
yourself.


My experience has been that original batteries shipped with the devices are
good - often lasting 10 years or more - but that replacements don't hold up.

I've purchased replacement cordless phone batteries at Radio Shack which
only lasted about a year.

I have a Black & Decker cordless screwdriver. The original battery packaged
with the unit has much greater capacity than the free one I had a coupon for
and had to mail in.

I think they use the lower mAh "rejects" for the freebies.

Mark Z.