On 04/28/2017 07:23 PM, Diesel wrote:
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?


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They were the CR2032

and one thing I know is batteries. I was a senior service engineer at
Enersys-Delaware and had 38 years in the field when I retired.
(Previously Yuasa-Exide and before that Exide)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnerSys

I know how to test a CMOS battery under load and always do so with any
that might have been sitting around for a while, but they do have a very
long shelf life.


If I really needed the battery that day I would have paid the $7 or
stole one out of the machine spare machines I have in my shop.


It was more of a psychological need than a real one.


Example:

Ten years after I had been living in my house, I one day noticed that
the bathroom light had no globe. It was just a bare light bulb.

I went over to the nearest h/w store but they were out of the size I
needed. The clerk told me he was getting a restock shipment in two days
and to come back.


Needless to say I went to another H/W store, no way was I going to wait
two more days!