Where can I buy 1 AA battery?

[Bruce]

I have seen two for a pound in Poundland, but they don't sell them singly.

[Bruce]

I used to do that in my shop. I charged exactly a quarter of the price of a four pack, so it didn't make me any more money than selling a whole pack, but it did seem to generate a lot of goodwill.

[geoff]

In message , tim.... writes

Get a life ...

[geoff]

In message , ARWadsworth writes

Don't they take four of them?

Leaving him with just the same quandry, but with a nice warm feeling

[Mike Lane]

Jules wrote on Dec 2, 2009:

My TV remote and cable controller both use 2 AAs each; I have 5 radio controlled wall clocks which each use one, and a bedside alarm and a mantlepiece digital calendar/clock also with one each. My Garmin GPS uses two, and my Canon camera four. Several digital timers, thermometers and hygrometers use one or two each. I'm sure there are a few more around if I think a bit... oh yes, the logitech mouse in my right hand uses two AAs as well. The list goes on...

[Clot]

Has been back in Blighty also. Last Saturday, I went over to see elderly Pater and do shopping and whatever in N Wales.Significant picture book white Christmas trimmings to the tops of the mountains. Photographs of snow in County Durham in the Telegraph today and last week, programmes from Scotland on the Beeb showing more of the same confetti on the Scottish mountains.

Bl^^dy cold here on Monday morning, must have been under minus 4C overnight - you appreciate that's serious stuff!

Just glad that I'd topped up the motor with appropriate windscreen stuff on Sunday after my trip!

[Frank Erskine]

Yes?

That still doesn't answer the OP's question though.

It does seem a waste (environmentally if nothing else) to buy unwanted batteries just to throw them away.

[Part timer]

Alkaline or zinc carbon/chloride?

[geoff]

In message , Frank Erskine writes

dispose of them responsibly ...

[geoff]

Zinc/carbon IIRC

[Bob Eager]

It answers one of his questions! And several people have answered the other...

[Graham.]

plentiful and things are much cheaper. What does a four

Well quite. Tim seems to be saying his wall-clock is the only device he owns that takes AAs I seem to have dozens of them.

Did you see my post about lithium AA cells, I have been experimenting with them as Sainsbury's are selling them for little more than branded alkaline, and Tesco had a half price offer too that I expect they will repeat. I imagine you could get in excess of 5 years life in a quartz clock, I tried them in my wireless thermostat and it didn't like them because, I suspect, of their higher than 1.5v off load voltage

[Graham.]

I bet you tested each light-bulb in front of the customer too. My friend did that in his shop.

[Graham.]

To bring this on-topic for a DIY group -

hall clock takes a D cell, however I have been putting AAs in it for years, all I did was bend the -ve leaf-spring so it gripped the shorter cell.

[Graham.]

Lithium AAs are easy to get now. I recon you will get 5 years + in a R/C wall clock.

[Bob Martin]

[Bob Martin]

Every toy we buy for the grandchildren seems to require multiple batteries. Got one last week which needs 4xAA and 4xAAA Also my Olympus camera will only work with good quality AA cells.

[Bruce]

Yes, guilty as charged. ;-)

It's called "customer service" and it pays dividends (in terms of goodwill) far beyond the small amount of effort involved.

[Mike Clarke]

... except that they come in packs of 4.

[Bruce]

There's no law that says you have to use all four!

You could sell the other three on eBay. ;-)