EEVblog Electronics Community Forum

Electronics => Projects, Designs, and Technical Stuff => Topic started by: IanJ on November 19, 2020, 01:12:44 pm

Title: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: IanJ on November 19, 2020, 01:12:44 pm
Hi all,

A customer of mine sent me this photo......all ready to pop a couple of EBL batteries into his brand new PDVS2mini.......but spot the problem!!!

Ian.

(https://www.ianjohnston.com/images/stories/IanJ/eevblog/batts.png)
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: RoadRunner on November 19, 2020, 01:14:39 pm
Hi all,

A customer of mine sent me this photo......all ready to pop a couple of EBL batteries into his brand new PDVS2mini.......but spot the problem!!!

Ian.

(https://www.ianjohnston.com/images/stories/IanJ/eevblog/batts.png)

I guess just heat shrink plastic label is other way round, not the polarity , still funny though.
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: SilverSolder on November 19, 2020, 01:19:06 pm
 :-DD
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: jeroen79 on November 19, 2020, 01:39:43 pm
They're marked for electron current instead of conventional current.
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: Alex Eisenhut on November 19, 2020, 01:48:47 pm
A complementary pair! Are they well matched?
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: Haenk on November 19, 2020, 02:01:20 pm
It's a bipolar version of the battery.
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: madires on November 19, 2020, 02:14:25 pm
It's simply physics! If there's a battery, then there's also an anti-battery. ;)
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: jh15 on November 19, 2020, 02:51:04 pm
It's rechargeable, so current reverses. But looks like one battery to discharge, and one that is charge only. Sort of like a write-only memory, (no read :))
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: Cerebus on November 19, 2020, 03:11:24 pm
It's a bipolar version of the battery.

There's a Lithium joke in there somewhere.  :)
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: IanJ on November 19, 2020, 05:04:57 pm
I have about 50 of these EBL batteries (for batch function testing).......I just checked them all and they are ok....:-)

Ian.
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: james_s on November 19, 2020, 07:23:00 pm
I'm betting it just got flipped around before it went into the machine that applies the label. If the actual polarity is wrong for the terminal gender then that's an issue. In this case I'd just use a permanent marker to cover the markings.
Title: Re: EBL 9v battery factory oops!
Post by: perieanuo on November 23, 2020, 05:39:49 pm
the li-ion is the big inovation here, maybe tesla launched one?