Ugh, alkaleaks are hateful little things. Ruined so much crap it’s not even funny.

Just tossed one that still metered 1.45V, so you’d think it had plenty of oomf left in it. Got all white’n’fuzzy on the negative end, just sitting on a table. Inside a light? It’d be ruined…

Ruined a really nice Orcatorch AAA, browned one of the brass nipples in the tailcap of a TK4A, welded shut my gf’s old Micromag that I couldn’t even open it up with the toothy middle of slip-joint pliers.

So yeah, it’s LiX and NiMH all the way…