Paul wrote:

Some cells are knackered in the package. I was sold a
CR2032 at the mall, which was dead about a day after I
got it, which meant the product had been sitting in
that store for 10+ years. Or, it was a counterfeit
of a very inferior nature. No amount of fingerprints
would be responsible for that. Another cell purchased
elsewhere, behaved properly. It's not like I had
premature failures one after another, just the one
cell that was knackered, out of the package.

All the button cells I have bought in the last few years have 'use
before' dates on them (or something like that).

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Chris Green
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