On Sunday 02 March 2025 01:49:59 am Andy via groups.io wrote:
On Sat, Mar 1, 2025 at 01:30 PM, wn4isx wrote:
****The "less likely to leak" has become a joke, all the major brands now
leak long before their use by date.
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If rumors are to be believed (I know, there's a major problem with that), then some brands are considerably better than others in this respect.
I have been warned never to buy name-brand "X" because they almost always leak, whereas name-brand "Y" rarely does.? I have heard that said by several people, which suggests there is some truth to it.
At the same time, though, I would expect that it is a "moving target", and what was the best advice 5 or 10 years ago, is probably meaningless today, as the name brands frequently change their suppliers.
It used to be simpler when we knew things were manufactured domestically by the company with the name on the box, by?the same factories and people over long periods of time.? But I digress.
That may be changing, we'll see.
I went through a period where I tried all sorts of brands. Dollar store brands, etc. And I arrive at the conclusion that the name brands like Duracell and Eveready would last longer than any of those other ones. Yeah, you can get a whole big honkin' box of those other ones fairly cheaply, but who wants to be bothered with changing them more often?
I used to favor Duracell, but they had a period of time where they seemed to be more prone to leakage. These days if you look at the battery rack in the front of a Wal-Mart near the registers, it's pretty much more Eveready than anything else. OTOH, I have a couple of Duracell D size that I pulled out of a magliite flashlight after realizing that they'd been in there close to a decade and a half, There's a date of "MAR 2013" on them And they still test good!
The YT channel "Project Farm" does all sorts of comparison tests on a lot of stuff, and he did one video comparing different brands, some of which I'd never heard of. He arrived at the conclusion that lithium was the way to go, that they didn't leak, and offered better performance than any of the alkaline cells that were out there.
One time when I was still in high school I picked up a "glow plug" at a hobby shop, the sort of thing you'd use for a model airplane engine. And just for the heck of it I connected it up to a AA alkaline cell, and sure enough that little heating element glowed. So I got curious and measured the current. I was really surprised to see that it was over an amp! I had no idea that you could pull that much out of one of those....
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