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This topic appears to have morphed from HPAK discussion regarding their inability to sell to private customers to a
Battery failure discussion - shouldn't that have become a separate topic.?
Nigel

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From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Larry McDavid via
Sent: 05 September 2024 16:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HP-Agilent-Keysight-equipment] Keysight customer support policy

You believe currently manufactured Duracell AA and AAA cells now no longer leak? Does anyone have any evidence to support that? What is the current experience? I'd like to believe that...

Best wishes,

Larry McDavid W6FUB
Anaheim, California (SE of Los Angeles, near Disneyland)

On 9/5/2024 7:57 AM, Robert G8RPI via wrote:
> The Alkaline cell leakage problem in premtium brands like Duracell and
> Energiser is not entirely down to cost cutting by the manufacturers.
> The root cause was the mandated (rightly) elimination of Mercury by
> governments. It turned out that the small amount of Hg alloed the
> re-absorbsion of hydrogen generated by the cell even when not suppling
> current. This lead to a period of production of cells the were prone
> to leakage. They now seem to have fixed the chemistry and more recent
> cells don't suffer this problem.
> Robert.
>