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Sixteen years ago, I decided to embrace the recharge. After research, I bought the best batteries and recharger. It ended up to be a giant waste of money. Even my kids, who were young at the time, learned not to trust "Dad's" batteries. It had such a negative impact, they didn't trust rechargable anything for a long while (such as with MP3 players.)
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Try some of the newer Eneloop batteries (other quality brands are available  ) they are a lot better but it does depend on application I agree.
If you can always charge them at a lower rate too, so they don't ever get warm I've found them to be very good, lasting a few months in things like the led candles we have, those ones have been charged at maybe twenty times over the five years we've had them.
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A general warning: seen (had) batteries from major brands, such as Duracell, leak in devices and even leak sitting in a drawer. Heavy leakage. And five or six years left on the freshness date. For that matter, I've had NiMH batteries unable to hold a charge after just a few cycles: same batch, same device, same charging cycle - some just drop dead.
What did they all have in common? MADE IN CHINA
I simply won't buy them for those applications that require non-rechargeable. It's cheap insurance.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: MADE IN CHINA
Who cares if they work - they were a dollar less than the other package!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I guess you didn't read the majority of what I wrote.
Enjoy. Don't worry . . . be happy
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And I would guess that you didn't understand the sarcasm in that statement.
And I never enjoyed Don't worry be happy![^]
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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DRHuff wrote: And I would guess that you didn't understand the sarcasm in that statement.
Guilty - I have my head in too many things at once. Just calming down about now.
Glad you said something (though I've no idea why).
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Just out of curiosity, if you want batteries NOT made in China, what do you buy?
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Last time out for alkaline batteries (9v for smoke detectors), I got RayOVac, made in Malaysia. Not my favorite source, but at least long ago they had quality control (major source of Seagate HDD's when they were top dog).
For NiMH, some come from Japan (Enelope, also, some other grey thing got from Newegg).
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The most important thing to know is what the application is going to be.
If you are going on a camping trip and using a flashlight a lot; I would recommend some Duracell alkaline batteries. That same flashlight just being for emergency use is getting conventional zinc-chloride batteries which will be replaced when I change batteries in my smoke detector every 6 months.
Why is this? I use an LED MagLight. The batteries do not get used up quickly, and will last and last and last. The problem is that the casings deteriorate and possible swell or leak before they go dead. I have a 10 year old one that still lights up (dimly) but I cannot get the batteries out to change.
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Thank you each and every contributor to this conversation.
Really learned a lot.
And then,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
The boss tells me, "Batteries ? You don't have to buy them, just come by the office when you need a set. I can keep you in batteries, no problem."
So, Duh.
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The little deities have no need for such a day ever since they landed and conquered the Egyptians.
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them were cats.
His last invention was an evil Lasagna. It didn't kill anyone, and it actually tasted pretty good.
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Modern cats don't have owners; they have clients.
Mine for example ('Canada' by name) lives in a nice post-modern flat beneath the towel rack in our upstairs bath. It's adjacent to a furnace vent, so warm and comforting to her old bones (she's 16).
Software Zen: delete this;
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Is that like pancake day?
How do you cook them?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: How do you cook them?
MMMMMMM Siamese food.
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I think not. I happen to have two in my household. One is "special" - has bladder issues, needs special food at $75/bag.
Insert  here. Normally my better half handles this.
Cat #2 likes to climb the new cellular shades I have just installed. Daughter, "Dad, kicking the cat will not solve the problem." Me, "It will if he goes far enough."
Other daughter is going on cruise, "Will you watch my cats?" she asks my better half. Yesterday, I came home to a large turd in the bathtub... oh yeah, *that* cat (he has a history of being picky).
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<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Due to a recent change of location, I've had to go from 100M broadband to 500K cell hotspot service.  Of course, I've noticed that the streaming I get from Joker Live Stream has been spotty. I'm using Hola Video Accelerator, and it's helping, but I was wondering if there is another extension I should try.
modified 28-Oct-18 23:06pm.
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Your question puzzles me, actually. It is like asking : "So I recently switched from a ferrari to a ford mondeo, and I wonder if there is any car shampoo that would allow me to drive 320km/h like I did before ?"
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Reading this delightful riposte, with one eye, I read it as "cat shampoo"
«Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?» T. S. Elliot
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I think cat shampoo (is that a thing ?) could work even better in this case !
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It's possible. Several years ago my cat was meandering around the rim of the tub while I was taking a shower and she fell in. Since she didn't seem to mind this, and had been kind of scruffy lately, I shampooed her, rinsed her off, and wrapper her in a towel. No blood was lost.
Of course, now that she's old and cranky, things might turn out differently...
Software Zen: delete this;
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The best way to achieve 320km/h in this car is to push it out of an airplane from 45,000 feet.
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