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Buford wrote:Do you reckon that manufacturers made the batteries too fat where they knew the batteries would not work?
Dwight Livingston wrote:Sure it's not the light that's too small? The AA battery specification allows up to 14.5mm diameter. What diameter are your Rayovacs?
NZcaver wrote:Buford wrote:Do you reckon that manufacturers made the batteries too fat where they knew the batteries would not work?
No, I just think it's poor design or quality control on the part of the battery manufacturer. This is pretty much my first and only complaint against Rayovac. The slightly fatter batteries fit the tube compartments in my Zebralight and Fenix headlamps, but in my opinion if you call something an AA cell it should fit the spec in ANY device made to the AA spec. I can accept that NiMHs are only 1.2v nominal per cell versus 1.5v in alkaleaks, but making them a fraction too fat is just irritating.
paul wrote:Quite a few years ago I bought what looked like genuine Duracell AAs from an outdoor market very cheaply. They seemed slightly larger in diameter than the ones I was replacing when I put them in a Maglite. A couple of months later I tried to swicth the Maglite on and it didn't work.
I removed the end cap and found the batteries had leaked and also expanded so that I could not get them out whatever I tried, without damaging the Maglite.
I ended up throwing the Maglite away. Obviously these were cheap counterfeit "Duracell" batteries and were very poor quality. I suppose I got what I paid for but it cost a lot more (a replacemen Maglite) in the end.
potholer wrote:A friend had some Duracell AAs (legit ones, I think) leak in a Maglite and become jammed in.
In that case, I found that I could remove them by hammering/screwing a decent-sized woodscrew into the bottom of the cells and pulling. Trying to push them out from the top didn't work since the only thing thin enough to fit down the gap at the top just punctured the cell and didn't give enough 'push' to get it moving.
NZcaver wrote:potholer wrote:A friend had some Duracell AAs (legit ones, I think) leak in a Maglite and become jammed in.
In that case, I found that I could remove them by hammering/screwing a decent-sized woodscrew into the bottom of the cells and pulling. Trying to push them out from the top didn't work since the only thing thin enough to fit down the gap at the top just punctured the cell and didn't give enough 'push' to get it moving.
Same thing happened to a friend of mine with his 6 x D cell Maglite. The dummy left Alkalines in it for maybe a year or more.
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Moral of the story - avoid alkalines, or at least remove them from the device when not in use.
paul wrote:In fact, now that I think of it, all the various remote controls around the house have alakaline AAs or AAAs, either the cheapo once that they came with or with whatever I subsequently replaced them with (ususally Duracell as they are easiy availble and seem to have a very loing shelf life). Those have never leaked either, so far, and some hardley get used from month to month.
Buford wrote:A good rule of thumb is that if a flashlight's batteries self-destruct, you didn't need that kind of light anyway.
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