Dummy AA battery?

[Uncle Peter]

Are there dangerous chargers?!?

[Bod]

I've heard that Bulls can be quite dangerous when they charge.

[Uncle Peter]

When I was 10, me and my friends used to taunt a herd of bulls in a local field. They're not dangerous. They're too slow, too stupid, and not agile enough. None of them ever got anywhere near us, despite them being bombarded in the testicles with stones.

[Bod]

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3 legged bulls were they?

[Mr Pounder]

All of my solar powered garden lights are Lithium 1.2 volts.

[John Rumm]

You know there is always some bull in uncle's posts...

[dennis]

I bought a nitecore charger off amazon. It seems OK but I haven't taken it apart. It uses a figure 8 cable rather than a power brick.

The batteries are ultrafire off ebay, they came in a pack with the torch and charger but the charger was cr@p.

[The Natural Philosopher]

well he is still wrong, because in reality a dry cell is working at 1.2 and a li-ion has given up at 3.6 so AT LEAST three times the voltage...

[Uncle Peter]

How prudish do you have to be to censor the word crap?

[Uncle Peter]

Ah. I searched for "dummy AA", I should have added the word battery. Normally the battery code is enough to find them on Ebay.

I like this one: you can hide illegal drugs in it to get past airport security:

Amazon is completely f***ed altogether. The website looks like it was made by a child. There's no obvious feedback system, and it looks like it's been written back in the days of 486s. I also can never figure out if I'm buying from Amazon, a company, or an individual. Also the prices are far too high.

[Uncle Peter]

Devices can handle 1.2-1.6 volts per AA so they can take alkalines. So 3.6 isn't far off 3.2. I guess you could replace 2 or 3 of them with one Li cell.

[Uncle Peter]

If you put Li batteries in a device designed only for NiMH, without any dummies, it wouldn't be happy.

[Uncle Peter]

I found a pack of 30 for 6 quid from Hong Kong. That'll do.

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[Graham.]

A sweeping statement. It depends on the acumen of the designer and/or the intelligence of the end-user.

[Uncle Peter]

90% of the population would forget there are two voltages. And I doubt many products made before Li AAs came out would allow for having over double the voltage present in the battery compartment. It's not like it's a DC input socket where they could expect someone to select the wrong voltage on a multi voltage wall wart.

[polygonum]

Thank you. They do look better than many!

[Uncle Peter]

dy

ny dummies, it wouldn't be happy.

Ohmagod! WTF?

=A31 battery cha= rger?

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[Uncle Peter]

I think I'll avoid this make, don't they know what it means in English?

[Uncle Peter]

dy

Triple voltage? I would think they would.

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[Uncle Peter]

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Andy

But most things take two or more batteries.

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