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silly design, keyboard without power switch caused battery acid leakage
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Peabody:
The batteries in your picture are NiMH rechargeables, not alkaline.
DiTBho:
wrong pic uploaded, right format.
edit: fixed.
coppercone2:
if you have a device like this, put a strip of wax paper or plastic in the battery cavity like you would get from the store so that until you pull it out its off. A little annoying but we can't be expected to solder a switch and mod every gadget that we use once a year.
BrokenYugo:
If you are prone to leaving batteries in things alkaline is the worst choice, lithium, nimh, even carbon zinc is much less leak prone and destructive.
tooki:

--- Quote from: coppercone2 on April 23, 2022, 05:22:24 pm ---if you have a device like this, put a strip of wax paper or plastic in the battery cavity like you would get from the store so that until you pull it out its off. A little annoying but we can't be expected to solder a switch and mod every gadget that we use once a year.

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Keystone Electronics sells the pull tabs (and they don't cost much, 12ยข on Digikey), model 119 for AAA and smaller, model 121 for AA and larger.
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