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Default "Touching (one or both terminals of) button batteries causes them to discharge" - any truth?

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John Rumm wrote:
Yeah, those chinesium digital calipers seem famous for that. Mine are
the same. I get the feeling it would probably be cheaper to stump up for
the Mitutoyo[1] in the first place and not buy batteries by the shed
load!


Quite - that's what my digital calipers is. Batteries seem to last forever
- even when left switched on.

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