They do vary. One clock pags out at about 1.1V but that cell will then run another clock for 3 - 4 months. My RF 'stat/prog. drops out at 1.4V so the 4 cells go in to a marked box and are used for clocks.
Oh shit! Still, most don't go into expensive gear.
tim.... expressed precisely :
Try a pound shop. 4x AA for £1.
tim.... expressed precisely :
..and that far back as well :-)
It happens that Bruce formulated :
No, that was called - preventing the customer bringing the lamp back for a refund, because it didn't work :-)
It happens that Jules formulated :
No - in those days they were packed in an open ended corrugated pack, with the contacts exposed. The modern box would mean your opening it to test it and re-packing it. Besides which they are so very cheap in comparison these days and so rare to find a dud. Who cares if one in a pack of ten happens to be a dud?
but aren't they like the ones on my local market stall.
they have an expiry date of next year instead of 2016 that the full priced ones have.
In message , tim.... writes
You have to look at it over the life of the battery which is more like
0.01%
FFS - give me your address, I'll send you an AA battery for xmas
In message , tim.... writes
CPC - on offer today, 40 for a fiver
Three spatial dimensions, plus time?
I didn't think the boxes were sealed - maybe they are. I'd forgotten about those corrugated sleeves, though!
Yeah, there is that. But I was also thinking more generally, and whether most people would find someone wanting to test an item before handing it over a good thing or not. I suspect it'd just piss a lot of people off :-(
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember geoff saying something like:
Blimey, are you Herman Goering?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "Graham." saying something like:
Still happens in small shops.
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember NT saying something like:
Utter c*ck.
Well it wouldn't be easy in a supermarket, where I suspect most bulbs are purchased - each checkout would have to have a tester, with various sizes and types of lampholder; and all the checkout operators would have to be 'trained' how to test blubs... Think of the fun in a long queue...
:-)
Nah - he'd have sent Fliegerabwehrkanone.
In message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes
Das wird AckAck sein
Gott in Himmel, you tricked me verdammmmt Englander [1]
[1] - or notIn message , Grimly Curmudgeon writes
How many batteries does that need then ?
Heh, I had one of those - finally died last year after a maths A level, a Further Maths A level and then a Maths degree (followed by 14 years of random use :)).
I had a very early one that had a firmware bug that meant the 3root button would display 2root - it would still perform a cube root, just the display was wrong.
I remember writing to Casio to moan and got a load of freebies (including a couple of sets of batteries :))
Darren
geoff wrote on 03/12/2009 :
What you going to do with the other 39?
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