philo news Apr 2017 18:55:04 GMT in alt.home.repair, wrote:

On 04/28/2017 01:36 PM, Frank wrote:


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I think it is a crap shoot looking for cheapest stuff. I've
never shopped ebay but my brother-in-law has bought stuff for my
wife which turned out to be crap. Chinese stuff might be good or
bad and US stuff may even be the same but quality control should
be better and they filter out the bad. Worth paying for.


Here is where it all started for me.

I do a lot of computer repair work and one day the unbelievable
thing happened...I ran out of CMOS batteries!

LOL.. Okay. I know alot of people who say that, but, I wind up working
on their **** outright and/or assisting them when they get way in over
their pretty little heads. But, I'll humour you on this one.

No big deal, I'll just run over to the local drug store and pick
one up, I'll pay a bit too much but big deal.

Are they CR16 or CR32?

A battery which should have been may $2.50 was marked $7 !

No way could I do that.

****. If I needed it that day for something, I would have spent the
extra few dollars. It wasn't that much of a difference in the grand
scheme of things. You are billing these people aren't you? Surely your
hourly rate/job rate would have covered the additional expense.

I went on line and ordered from China.

Price was $2.58 but that is not the whole story. $2.58 for
TWENTY of them and that INCLUDED shipping!!! 13 cents each I
guess

How long had they been sitting in storage? How many volts present on
them when you took them out of the packaging? Did you test ANY of them
with an actual battery tester? It puts a small 'load' on the battery to
determine it's actual available power. Rather than using a DMM to test;
since the 'load' they present is negligible.

They arrived in ten days and they are A-1 .

Identical as far as I can tell to the $7 drugstore variety.

Maybe, maybe not. Do you know how old they actually are from date of
manufacture? These are things to consider when replacing laptop battery
packs, too. Sitting on a store shelf, kills them, over time.






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