Where can I buy 1 AA battery?

[PeterC]

Got my last batch there, but my rule is to buy only branded ones. Last were Panasonic with 5 years to go (or so the label said).

[tim....]

how far back do you go?

I am old enough to remember when it was normal to buy all batteries

*unwrapped* in singles. (I worked in the shop that sold them this way)

tim

[tim....]

In a shop, for branded long life batteries - 4 pounds (more or less).

tim

[PeterC]

plentiful and things are much cheaper. What does a four

What is the voltage of them?

6 Energizer AA Lithium for £5.50 here:

[PeterC]

Trouble is, most clocks etc. seem to stop with voltage at about 1 - 1.2, so rechargeable cells at 1.2V... If a clock would run for a reasonable time on

1.2V, hybrid cells would be needed to be practicable.

[tim....]

As did I. As per my earlier post, all of the things that I used to own that used them, have been superseded by a newer equivalent that takes a different battery type.

I am genuinely surprised that people are buying new electronic devices with remotes that use them as all 4 of the new audio-visual devices (different brands) that I have bought in the last 2 years take AAAs (without me taking any interest in this), whereas previously they all took AAs.

tim

[tim....]

I find that insulting.

Ar you in the habit of throwing away 3% of your weekly income.

tim

[tim....]

As it originally wasn't clear if the battery was flat or the clock broken I tested the one I took out

it registered 0.7 volts (yes that surprised me as well)

tim

[Jules]

That's good to hear... Winters in the UK just weren't the same as I remember when I were a lad (seemed like snow was guaranteed every year back then - but that tailed off to maybe once every 6 or 7 years in more recent decades)

It's snowing quite nicely outside again here right now - I think it'll be here to stay until next April or so now (so I'm stuck with indoor DIY projects until then :-)

:-) It's not so different here right now, actually - currently -7C out (8am). It won't get seriously cold until January time.

Don't forget to check that the engine coolant's good, too...

cheers

Jules

[Jules]

a graphing calculator somewhere with some trailing wires and a 9V battery dangling from it, because it'd eat through its 2032 3V cells and I never had spares of those lying around when I needed them)

[Jules]

Would it still work today? I mean, I like stuff like that - but lots of folk these days seem to expect everything to be instant, and any little thing that takes up their time actually has a negative effect. I'm not sure they'd comprehend that going home to find they had a dud bulb would be far worse than the extra couple of seconds it would take to check it in the shop...

cheers

Jules

[Jules]

Thinking about remotes, there's just so many buttons on both my TV and DVD remote (90% of which I never use) that I don't think they could have made them physically smaller anyway - so there's no incentive to go to AAAs just on size grounds.

In terms of availability, I still think far more stuff uses AAs than uses AAAs, so there's not really any incentive for the manufacturers to change on those grounds, either.

(I think the remotes for my amp and CD player that I have in storage back in Blighty might be AAAs, though - doubtless done because then those remotes *could* be smaller. Difficult for me to just do the 8000mi round-trip to check, though ;)

cheers

Jules

[NT]

The extra labour would mean 20p on the price, that would get rid of most customers. Testing them is effectively admitting you get enough duds to need to test each one, which would put off a good 50% of your few remaining customers.

NT

[Frank Erskine]

Casio fx-7000G?

[Adrian C]

Same here, but it's a gamble with things with a very low on/off duty of use. I specially put Duracells in those.

FWIW My AAA alkaline Panasonic's bought in a pack of twenty from Morrisons leaked :-(

[Dave]

You could do it ecologically, if you bought a bike :-)

Dave, exits with his coat on

[Dave]

Go and find an Asian run Spar type shop in a deprived area. They will be dead keen to make a profit on anything.

Dave

[Jules]

Yes! :-)

I remember I had a Mandelbrot prog for it - it'd take the best part of the day to run it, and the original 2032's would be almost gone by the time it was done. It was a pretty nifty wee beastie for the time, though. Hell, it's 20 years old now...

cheers

Jules

[ARWadsworth]

Is there a version that takes 4 D cells?

Adam

[ARWadsworth]

Wait for their half price sale.

Adam