Yes, I've had the old black pea in a pack. I did send it back and got a free
new pack. No mention of fake. This was the old Energiser brand, used to be
Ever Ready I'd imagine, which when you think of it was a lie in the name, as
in the old days, even when they rebranded to Berec was not true. Most
Japanese batteries of the same era outperformed them. Duracell outperform
Energisers as well, indeed Sainsbury's own brand out perform energisers!
Brian

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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.

Some battery powered devices have a constant battery drain despite being
*switched off*.

My two are a pistol grip laser thermometer and a digital vernier gauge.
Left connected, 4 weeks battery life:-(

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