In article ,
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Where are they made? Instead of the usual Duracell from the far east,
today my wife brought home one made in Belgium. I expect this is the real
thing and the others are fakes.

Does it make sense to situate a battery factory in only one country when
your market is the world? One inside the EU can make sense because of
favourable trading conditions within that, but high labour costs there
means the product is unlikely to be competitive world wide.

Incidentally, I've been looking into the comparative costs of alkaline and
lithium and they seem to be priced more or less in direct relation to
their claimed life. And since that claimed life will be a best case
scenario I won't be changing to them for RM use.

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:40:24 -0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
Where are they made? Instead of the usual Duracell from the far east,
today my wife brought home one made in Belgium. I expect this is the real
thing and the others are fakes.

Does it make sense to situate a battery factory in only one country when
your market is the world? One inside the EU can make sense because of
favourable trading conditions within that, but high labour costs there
means the product is unlikely to be competitive world wide.

Incidentally, I've been looking into the comparative costs of alkaline and
lithium and they seem to be priced more or less in direct relation to
their claimed life. And since that claimed life will be a best case
scenario I won't be changing to them for RM use.

I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother of changing them more often.

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I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother
of changing them more often.

What sort of life are you getting? Given the price, I'd hope at least five
years.

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:19:18 -0000, William Sommerwerck wrote:

I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother
of changing them more often.

What sort of life are you getting? Given the price, I'd hope at least five
years.

I haven't had one run out yet (18 months and counting). But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months. They're cheap smoke alarms.

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Drinking fresh mango juice
With goldfish shoals nibbling round my toes
Fun in the sun

But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months.
They're cheap smoke alarms.

That's pretty bad. I've been using leftover Toshibas, and they last at least
a year.

On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:17:35 -0000, William Sommerwerck wrote:

But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months.
They're cheap smoke alarms.

That's pretty bad. I've been using leftover Toshibas, and they last at least
a year.

I bought 6 smoke alarms at once, so I went for cheap ones. 99p on ebay I believe.

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In article ,
says...
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:17:35 -0000, William Sommerwerck wrote:

But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months.
They're cheap smoke alarms.

That's pretty bad. I've been using leftover Toshibas, and they last at least
a year.

I bought 6 smoke alarms at once, so I went for cheap ones. 99p on ebay I believe.

Oh, *that's* a smart move. Expected though.

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:19:18 -0000, William Sommerwerck wrote:

I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother
of changing them more often.

What sort of life are you getting? Given the price, I'd hope at least five
years.

I'd prefer to use rechargeables (now that there are low self-discharge ones), but for some reason smoke alarm circuitry is very sensitive to voltage.

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