On August 17, 2007 at 00:43, Daniel Tonks said...
For the past few years I've had a rash of bad alkaline
AAA batteries (I go through a lot). Doesn't matter if
they're Energizer or Duracell, it seems that 1 out of
every 5 AAA has no charge out of the box, but I don't
notice right away. I put 4 in a remote, use it for a couple
of weeks just fine, and then it's suddenly giving me a
low battery warning. I *know* I just replaced them, so
I test each in a battery tester and sure enough ONE of
the four is as dead as a doornail with 0 volts, the rest
are just a bit lower than full.
This has happened about 8 times or so to me, with different
batches of batteries, so it's not just a random fluke...
I've not had this problem with either of those brands. At work we use the Duracell PROCELL. You might want to try those, as we've had good luck with them and we do go through a lot of AAA batteries at work.
