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Fill em up before the holidays, men.
Gotta go for rechargeables. Be a true dullard and ask people to buy you rechargeable batteries for Christmas. A few birthdays and christmases and youll have enough to not worry about tracking them down.
All my rechargeable AA are starting to fail 2-3 years later as their capacity drops. But I guess it’s still better than disposables
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I have mixed feelings over those new Lithium ion AA batteries.
They require special charging means (USBC on the battery itself or a special charger bank) and they don't fall off on voltage.
Its great to have a perfect 1.5v but it doesn't wane down. It just dies.
In a TV remote or flashlight it's great. I use them in devices that provide low battery warning like Xbox controllers and the low battery indicator never goes off. This is annoying if it just dies out of nowhere while gaming.
Not all of the AA rechargeables are li-ion
Obviously.
Reread your comment, and I guess that should have been more obvious. Anyway, my experience has been that the li-ion versions are less common. I bought a couple for a portable cassette player, which I thought would benefit from a very consistent voltage. I believe most of the other battery types aren’t a (near) perfect 1.5v either, but I think the li-ion is.
At the time I'm not sure how to make it clear I was referring to the new tech rechargeable AA batteries. Except this is a thread about batteries. So I didn't feel the need to spell it out.
I did want to mention the consistent 1.5v voltage. The li-ion cell is sepped down to 1.5v so it's maintained perfectly until the cell runs out of juice and cuts to 0.
Its great for sensitive electronics lifespan and performance.
The issue is many devices work fine with standard 1.5v batteries. They take the full range of down to 1.2v(?)
In fact they tolerate voltage drop off and have warnings when the voltage drops too far so you can replace them.
The pain with li-ion AA batteries is they never set off the low battery warning. They just straight up die. Due to the consistent 1.5v.
Got lucky recently. My wife stumbled upon a shop that was closing and was selling their stuff at huge discount. 50% for AA and AAA rechargeables.
Be a true dullard
We be gatekeeping dullness, now?
This isn't Dull Men's Birthright Entitlement, it's Dull Men's Club. We have standards here.
Fair point.
My dearest stranger, there is not a thing that cannot be gate kept and which is not gate kept on the internet.
Great for personal use (I haven't had any capacity problems for over a decade) but horrible for workplace etc.: people don't understand that they're rechargeable and throw them away 😭
Depending on the use case they might not have the energy capacity, voltage or current capacity that primary cells are needed for
True, but if the voltage is the main concern, there are li-ion based rechargeable ones that deliver stable 1.5V until they're nearly empty.
Do they have a built in buck converter?
I'm not sure if it's a buck converter specifically because iirc there are different types of converters that lead to the same result. But something along those lines, yes.
Digital cameras famously have issues with rechargeables for that reason. They’re really picky about getting that voltage at the 1.5V per cell level.
Is there still a market for anything in the middle ground between phone camera and mirrorless/DSLR?
They still make and sell these devices at my local supermarket. There has to be somebody buying them.
Make sure you get the ones that are smart chargers and can monitor cells individually! You’ll thank yourself later when you don’t have to worry about mixing and matching arbitrary brands and capacities.
Is a half opened pack loosely shoved into an already full junk drawer not good enough for you or something? I'll have you know that only some of the loose batteries in there are dead.
For me most of the drawer batteries are dead but I dare anybody to prove that all are dead
No Cr-2032 or CR-2025? What is this, the 1990s?
I have the same case, and I slide the 2032 packs between the foam and the edge of the case.
I can't deny that a case like that looks nice. Organized and clean and all that. But it's almost painful to see how much space it wastes, just in a battery/inch³ sense.
I have the same case.
I initially thought the same until I made a new insert that stored the batteries more densely. But it was super annoying to get the batteries out because it was hard to grab one because the neighboring batteries were in the way of my fingers.
I put the old insert back in.
Looks like ammos and shotgun shells ngl
It's not wasted space, it's well used space
There gotta be some CR2032s and LR44s somewhere up in that bad boy
Good stuff 👌
I needed a single battery for a mouse and ended up spiraling
I bought total 16 batteries, AA and AAA and a charger.
Then I bought a friend the same and also threw in my old alkaline batteries.
Call me Batman
Nice. Cool case!
I love the case!