Eveready Ultimate Lithium.

I don’t know how much equipment I’ve lost to alkalines, non do I wanna remember.
I don’t get batteries out until they become weak. My bad. But I will continue.
Just last week I lost a remote control boat and a car.

Then I get the brilliant idea of buying Eveready Lithium Iron.
100 each, good price. Reputable dealer.

Today, I go to the scale in the bathroom and it’s dead.
Takes 4 AAA. Which I switched to “The Ultimate” for peace of mind.
I could not believe it, however, there were two liking.

Nor only did I switched perfectly working batteries in the scale.
But all around the house.

I have 21 AA and 13 AAA left of the Ultimate.
Where do I go from here?.

Cheers.

Whut?

For a clock/thermometer that takes 2 AAAs for the guts and 1 AAA for the backlight, I stuck a Shoshine LFP AAA + dummy cell in the former, and whateverloop for the latter.

One of mum’s lights that looks like a worklight (fake plastic “grate” that snaps across the LEDs, etc.) takes 3 AAs, springs destroyed by leaking, so I stuck an EBL Li cell in there and a wire jumping the bad springs.

Just gotta do what you gotta do.

Hmm. Never an issue with them for me. I put them in everything that I know might sit for weeks/ months without use just to have the peace of mind they aren’t bleeding all over the insides of my equipment. Yes they are expensive comparatively speaking, but I have yet to have a problem with them holding SOC providing they aren’t sitting in something with parasitic drain.

I went to EverReady Lithium in most items taking AA and AAA. They last a bit longer, good shelf life and don’t leak.

I stock up on Eveready lithium primary AAs and AAAs for the earthquake cache whenever I come across a good price.
As they get close to their expiration date I pull them and use them up.

Pointers welcome to good places to buy them, or to sales, anytime.

These are the best primary batteries period. Never leak and last forever.

Never had any issues at all with Eveready lithium batteries. Did you check the date on the batteries? Being a bathroom scale I’m wondering if moisture might have been an issue. Either way, most likely a fluke occurrence, nothing to get worried about.

They last for like 15 years. I doubt they were close to expiration.

Best non rechargeable battery. They last 5 years in thermostats.

Home Depot for more batteries?

2 days ago I pulled out the Noveske AR-15 that hadn’t been getting any love. My Eotech Holographic sight on it was dead. Closer examination showed that the Eveready Lithium’s had leaked, not too bad, but there was a fine white powder dispersed inside. One of the contact springs was rotted off from the leaking. I was able to pull the worst of the swollen battery’s out with a pair of small needle nose pliers and clean up the mess with D5 contact cleaner to where it is working, but I don’t have trust that a hard slam might not move the contact spring that was no longer attached and it might not work when I need it most.

Fortunately, the battery box is not connected and if I can find one, I can replace just that. These sights are fairly costly and I wouldn’t want to be replacing one everytime I change out my batteries on it.

https://www.eotechinc.com/holographic-weapon-sights

Edit - Whoo hoo, just found out that they sell the battery compartment separate for $26 shipped to me.

Anything with a liquid electrolyte can leak.

Energizer Ultimates are still the cat’s ass.

Chris

Not sure if that’s good or bad. I don’t pet that part of the cat… :confounded:

Time for a new bathroom scale that doesn’t have massive parasitic drain. Energizer Ultimate Lithium’s are the best. And for CR123’s, Panasonic (surefire, & energizer are panasonic re-brands)

Have no idea what this means

never heard of them before. afaik they don’t make a lithium ion or iron

FYI, whatever LIthium AA-AAA battery that is non rechargeable (Lithium Ion) is Lithium Iron.
I have sold 1000s of them, bootlegs from China. With another name, of course.
Now it doesn’t matter. They lost the patent.
BTW, I’m entitled to a typo or two, since I’m fluid in three languages and English is not my primary one.
So, gimme a break The joke was good ’till it lasted.
Cheers.

Think it was Ray-O-Vac that made a leakproof battery. How did I find that out? I bought an old battery powered small appliance that still had them installed and the springs were like new. The battery was flat as a pancake but had not leaked in over 50 years.

That was before the phrase “Planned Obsolescence” became a business mantra.

You tell me, and I tell you: