About leaking batteries, just replace them every a year or two, that's all it takes, even ig they are not fully depleated, and use them till they die in the mouse, tv remote or torch.
That's not all it takes, unfortunately. I've had batteries well under a year old that weren't depleted pop on me. I think they aren't building them as heat resistant as they used to. I have become pathological about checking on my alkalines now because they seem to pop on me all the times these days and they never used to do that.
About leaking batteries, just replace them every a year or two, that's all it takes, even ig they are not fully depleated, and use them till they die in the mouse, tv remote or torch.
That's not all it takes, unfortunately. I've had batteries well under a year old that weren't depleted pop on me. I think they aren't building them as heat resistant as they used to. I have become pathological about checking on my alkalines now because they seem to pop on me all the times these days and they never used to do that.I don't know if you canmake a claim, they aren't supposed to leak so easily, after expiration day or really abused. Alkalines can take a fair share of abuse, not as sensitive as lipo where a short will most likely make them explode, or being too empty, or too full, or too warm, or too cold, or you get my point...
You should swap brands or something, I don't see blown batteries that often, a calculator I got from a friend, parched a few traces in the keyboard and got away with it and, a tv remote or two, where the things last for ever, and some really old stuff forgotten with the batteries on. I don't use cheap batteries either, I mostly gpt them from a friend's music shop who buys mostly for personal use, replace or fit in products, so I get them for cheap or free, but still you won't loose your salary over different brands.
JS
About leaking batteries, just replace them every a year or two, that's all it takes, even ig they are not fully depleated, and use them till they die in the mouse, tv remote or torch.
That's not all it takes, unfortunately. I've had batteries well under a year old that weren't depleted pop on me. I think they aren't building them as heat resistant as they used to. I have become pathological about checking on my alkalines now because they seem to pop on me all the times these days and they never used to do that.I don't know if you canmake a claim, they aren't supposed to leak so easily, after expiration day or really abused. Alkalines can take a fair share of abuse, not as sensitive as lipo where a short will most likely make them explode, or being too empty, or too full, or too warm, or too cold, or you get my point...
You should swap brands or something, I don't see blown batteries that often, a calculator I got from a friend, parched a few traces in the keyboard and got away with it and, a tv remote or two, where the things last for ever, and some really old stuff forgotten with the batteries on. I don't use cheap batteries either, I mostly gpt them from a friend's music shop who buys mostly for personal use, replace or fit in products, so I get them for cheap or free, but still you won't loose your salary over different brands.
JS
You think I haven't tried different brands? I've tried everything. It just doesn't matter unless I'm checking once a month or more a popped AAA or AA always sneaks up on me. AAAs are the worst. I recently had two Energizer AAA go in a laser pointer that were only 6 months old and they were still reading 1.2V and working fine. My understanding is there's a sealed plastic membrane of some kind inside them that pops. And it seems like that membrane is more delicate than it used to be. I wish I knew what causes it, but it's not age or being deep discharged.
Up until 2010 or so this NEVER happened to me with alkalines, now it happens all the time. Something has changed.
I wish I knew what causes it, but it's not age or being deep discharged.
Up until 2010 or so this NEVER happened to me with alkalines, now it happens all the time. Something has changed.
Have you contacted energizer? Use them all the time, one of the few brands I use, and never seen one leaking, what enviroment do you usually have? Where I live 40°C is not unussual, humidity well over 90% most nights.
I think what has changed is "High Power" or "Super Extra Power" or "Ultra Performance".
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The best solution is to avoid all the expensive, high performance brands and buy the cheap dollar store brands instead. The cheaper cells use the older, less active formulations and don't have the same leaking tendency.
Looks like that's what I'll be doing in my 121GW. It would be nice to know officially if lithiums are a bad choice and to see that added to the manual.
Possible an issue with the range switch:
- disconnect any leads
- turn beep off in setup
- rotate range switch to resistance/continuity/...
- press "Mode" and switch it to continuity (the meter remembers the mode)
- rotate the range switch to "mVA/VA" while applying a small pressure to it (when you are very careful and do not apply any pressure, it does not do that)
- the meter will beep during the switching
- you can even find a position of the range switch where the meter reads 0 ohms and beeps continuously
My meter is a Kickstarter one - Johnny B. Goode, delivered by Welectron.
Video showing the problem:
I think this is because of the jack detection for current ranges and because you have it in continuity mode.
This leads me to believe there is a problem with the bluetooth module on the meter.
No devices can see it.
First activate bluetooth on the phone, close everithing, activate bluetooth on the meter, once activated open the app, if it doesnt show press refresh. I uave build 9 on android and works fine.
JS
Hi,
I noticed that the meter is locked in a auto-ranging loop in the DC+AC mode in some conditions (Ver. 1.26).
For example: Genrate this signal with a function generator:
6.4Vss, sinus, 800Hz together with a DC offset of +6.6V.
I've seen this very same auto-ranging loop in AC+DC simply measuring the mains 50 Hz, 230 V.
Regards.I've seen it too, unable to repeat as I turned off and on again and was good.
JS