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That was a concern for me, yeah, but the reality is that I change the batteries once a year, maybe? I can't remember the last time I did it, over a year. The amount of current that goes through is very small and they only need to send current through for less than a millisecond maybe once a second. So, super low current that's only active, maybe 0.01% of the time