"Snag" wrote in message
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Existential Angst wrote:
Awl --

I have discovered that some things, like wireless mouses, can take a
battery that appears dead in another device, and run *for months*.

I just took two AA batts out of my mouse, and I have never seen a
battery test so "dead". Replaced them with "normally dead"
batteries! Mouse works fine.

So if you have a battery tester, you can separate batteries by
"degrees of deadness", and still get some use out of them.

fwiw.... carbon footprints, donchaknow....

Oh yeah, I keep all batts in the freezer.

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EA

I use rechargeables in my most everything but one wall clock . I would
there too if I had a charger for "C" cells .

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Snag
Wannabe Machinist



I found that AA batteries with a new terminal voltage of ~1.5V crap out in
the kids video game controllers at around 1.2V. I reuse them in my battery
powered radio which I have on all night and get a couple of WEEKS out of a
pair of them before they go into the recycling.