I have a battery hot take.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1rlK3BKmyA
Alkaline batteries are obsolete — but their predecessor isn't
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I heard batteries needed to charge your car & of course Virgil Simms' invention sprang to mind immediately
https://youtu.be/9FsVjKewl_U
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@TechConnectify almost impossible to find heavy duty batteries in the stores around here. I did have a good stroke of luck finding them at Harbor Freight for a while. They weren’t great, but they were inexpensive. Last time I was there I didn’t see any though. They were black and yellow. Now they seem to only carry alkaline.
@TechConnectify "Alkaline batteries name is far too basic" got a laugh out of me
@TechConnectify my son dusted off our Wii last weekend and I learned that non rechargeable AA are 1.5V while the rechargeables we have are 1.2V so the wiimotes would work with them.
@TechConnectify Sigh. 30 minutes about Alkaline batteries. And yet, I know I'm going to watch it anyway.
@TechConnectify SUPER HEAVY DUTY (ironic)
@TechConnectify hot take: if your battery is hot, take it away
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Unfortunately I can't confirm the "alkaline batteries are all about the same, regardless of the brand" claim. Some non-brand batteries (not from a Dollar-Tree-like shop) can have a much lower capacity than one would expect (the non-brand batteries in my post lasted one month where brand batteries lasted over a year in a digital clock).
https://mstdn.social/@stekopf/117183513818610427
Maybe I should give CarbonZink a try.