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I Hate Batteries
schmitt trigger:
Back this last December, my family and my brother's family were enjoying a dinner together, an evening a few days before Christmas.
Suddenly some of the lights became very bright, while others dimmed considerably. Because the mains service here is 120v-neutral-120v, I immediately recognized it as a phase unbalance.
I instructed to turn off all the lights and unplug all electrical devices.
In the dark, with the assistance of battery powered torches, my bother and I went to the electrical box. With the help of a battery powered DMM, we quickly determined that the neutral wire had an intermittent connection with the bus bar.
The set screw holding the wire was perhaps dirty or corroded and we could not loosen it, no matter how hard we tried. But my brother remembered that an acquaintance nearby was a contractor and had many power tools. So with his battery powered mobile phone gave him a call to see if he was available.
He was, thus we hoped to my car, which has a battery powered starter, drove there, and borrowed a heavy-duty battery powered Bosch screwdriver.
Drove back to my brother's home, and with the Bosch screwdriver we were able to remove the stubborn set screw, clean it up and tighten it again.
A few moments we were back enjoying our dinner.
So I agree with the thread starter: Batteries are useless.
themadhippy:
Anybody got a spare time machine to nip back to the mid 1980's when tandys (radio shack) were selling a battery charger,not that uncommon,until you realised it charged disposable batteries,i dont think it lasted long as they realised it was costing them money. A few years later one of the electronics mags published a circuit for a similar thing,from memory it used AC pulses to reverse the chemical action,often wonder whether it worked? An ancient trick i remember as a kid was putting used batteries in a warm oven to get a bit more out of them .
engrguy42:
--- Quote from: schmitt trigger on April 28, 2020, 08:59:43 pm ---
So I agree with the thread starter: Batteries are useless.
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How did "annoying and stupid" (the very first line of the very first post of the thread) get translated into "useless"?
:-//
I'm wondering if people actually read posts and threads. Could it be that they just scan a few words here and there and make up their minds about what point is being made?
Nah, that can't be true can it? :o
BTW, the other day I received the universal charger ($20) I was talking about, as well as some rechargeable AAA, AA, C, and 9V batteries, and it seems like a BIG help in counteracting some of my hatred of batteries. It charges all of them. Although I still don't have nearly enough batteries on hand to replace the 40-some batteries in all my devices. And I just tossed two AAA's because my multimeter batteries died and my replacements were dead too. But who the hell knows the status of your non-rechargeables? |O
I hate 'em.
coppercone2:
--- Quote from: themadhippy on April 28, 2020, 11:19:08 pm ---Anybody got a spare time machine to nip back to the mid 1980's when tandys (radio shack) were selling a battery charger,not that uncommon,until you realised it charged disposable batteries,i dont think it lasted long as they realised it was costing them money. A few years later one of the electronics mags published a circuit for a similar thing,from memory it used AC pulses to reverse the chemical action,often wonder whether it worked? An ancient trick i remember as a kid was putting used batteries in a warm oven to get a bit more out of them .
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there were actually rechargable alkaline batteries made at one point
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rechargeable_alkaline_battery
SiliconWizard:
Yeah, but the OP hates them. ;D
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