How many batteries have you?

KdjaCL

Looking for 2 AA that i only bought yesterday and found 17 ****ing batteries, is there a battery plant in your house that just magically spawns them around the house?


kdjac

Rhyme

Never have enough double-A's, do have a drawer full of spent AAA batteries that seems to get bigger every time i check... rabbits

Femelade

the top drawer on the phone table - full of the bastarding things.

RobertFoster

I only find some when I come back from buying more. They know I'm looking for them and they hide.

simu

I recharge

Sparky

i must have about 50 AA's in a bag, but i can never find those fecken AAA's

murphaph

Sparky_S wrote:

i must have about 50 AA's in a bag, but i can never find those fecken AAA's

I was the same and AAA's are a rip-off. I solved the problem for a while though-bought 64 AAA's from ebay for £3.50. Great bargain. I have hundreds of spent batteries around the house but I know you're not supposed to bin them with everything else what with the heavy metals an' all so the stockpile gets bigger. I'll have enough mercury for my own filling soon.

Sparky

AAA's are a rip off, thats why i decided to get the rechargeable one's
imagine 4.99 for 4 AAA's.

whiskeyman

simu wrote:

I recharge

yeah - same here.
Used to have zillions of the blighters around the place, but once I got a digi camera and an mp3 player, it was well worth my while getting a few rechargables.
Saves me a packet!

Thumper Long

its a battery conspiracy, when they realise that you need batteries they run and hide, than as you return home with new ones that just cost you a fortune they come back out of hiding knowing that the coast is clear for a while

grimloch

I can't find AA batteries in this house for love nor money. Whenever I need one or two it has to be pilfered by other nearby appliances.

derek27

one time while doing a general clear up at home i came across a total of 71 AA batteries. i was astounded there was that many lingering around because tbh i cant remember ever buying any of them. i decided that i was gonna join them end to end (i used a long tray and some copper strips to put them together) to see what kind of DC devices i'd be able to power with my new homemade 'pooerpack'. i tried connecting it to a bulb and the instant i did the bulb blew, and the batteries half way down the grid litterally blew as well; some of them even had a split along their lenghts and the caps blon off them and the like. the ones either end seemed fine. i had a total of 34 batteries connected together for that to happen. i guess the liquid component of some of the batteries must've vapourised in my setup. dont try at home! :eek:

KdjaCL

derek27 wrote:

one time while doing a general clear up at home i came across a total of 71 AA batteries. i was astounded there was that many lingering around because tbh i cant remember ever buying any of them. i decided that i was gonna join them end to end (i used a long tray and some copper strips to put them together) to see what kind of DC devices i'd be able to power with my new homemade 'pooerpack'. i tried connecting it to a bulb and the instant i did the bulb blew, and the batteries half way down the grid litterally blew as well; some of them even had a split along their lenghts and the caps blon off them and the like. the ones either end seemed fine. i had a total of 34 batteries connected together for that to happen. i guess the liquid component of some of the batteries must've vapourised in my setup. dont try at home! :eek:

Hmmm im intrigued.....



kdjac

derek27

well, i actually do a bit of pyrotechnics, making rockets and that kind of thing, and my initial purpose for putting them together was to use the power to generate enough current to make an electronic rocket igniter to light my rockets from a safe distance. tbh, 2 of thos 12V batteries - the ones with the springs on top - joined together in sequence does the job just fine. but if you're gonna try experimenting with a large array of batteries like i did, wear goggles at the least.

Pigman II

82 atm.

Wertz

simu wrote:

I recharge

Likewise.
Got about 20 cells of ni-mh

Sparky

grimloch wrote:

I can't find AA batteries in this house for love nor money. Whenever I need one or two it has to be pilfered by other nearby appliances.

ive 50 of them with 25% charge in them if ya want them, ill be nice and give them to ya for nothing

Michael Collins

How are recharables these days? Those NiMH ones any good? I used to have rechargable batteries years ago, mainy NiCad, but they were terrible - didn't last anywhere near as long as normal mercury or alkaline ones.

sceptre

Michael Collins wrote:

How are recharables these days?

Prety darned excellent. Anything above 2000mA will last well, though I noticed Dunnes are selling a charger at the moment with pretty-useless-for-anything-intensive 800mA batteries. A good rechargeable will do rather better than Duracell or similar in anything like a digicam.

Wertz

sceptre wrote:

Prety darned excellent. Anything above 2000mA will last well, though I noticed Dunnes are selling a charger at the moment with pretty-useless-for-anything-intensive 800mA batteries. A good rechargeable will do rather better than Duracell or similar in anything like a digicam.

...and considering if you shop around or know where to get them, they are only about 1.5 times the cost of high power alkalines. Thta's before you recharge them a few hundred times. Definitely worth paying the extra for the 2000+ma...they really do make a difference.

The_Conductor

In excess of 200 AA, about 20 AAA, 9 PP3, 4 PPR- all in a big box in a cupboard. I'm a sucker for 100% extra free special offers etc. As soon as these go though- I'm going down the rechargeable route. I have a couple of 2500mAH batteries- with a decent drain rate- so thats me sorted.

With the increase in ESB charges in 3 weeks though- short of chucking a solar array on the roof, I might be better off sticking with the normal ones

Did I see somewhere gas prices to rise 25% in October too? Thats one way to simulate the thermal underwear market.....