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For Alkalines, the Duracell was best, but I would rather pay a bit more for the Energizer Max since Duracell is the king of leaking. The lithium primary cells are a bit pricey but good when you need the voltage to stay high.
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In case some people dont want to watch the entire video, he concluded Duracell leak the most. Duracell came in number one as the battery that has destroyed the most electronics.
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Seems pretty evident that the Kirkland = Duracell…so…
I use maxell alkaline and zinc carbon batteries for many years and it never leaks.
Aerocell brand battery from Lidl is very cheap and from my expirience it has equal power as basic duracell coper top.
I have bought 100 pcs chinese alkaline AA ‘Robust’ brand batteries before 5 years and it was very good with energy and no one leaks.
Nothing personal but I dont think that its possible to have an alkaline battery that does not leak. I think leaking is a characteristic of the chemistry. The brand has nothing to do with it.
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Maybe the casing is better sealed 
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Some alkalines are very prone to leak, some are make better like this philips ‘made in belgium’ with estimated year of use before 24 years.
It still has more than 1.5 volts and works 
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I see it and I do believe it but this has not been the experience of anyone but you and possibly few other people. They dont call them alkaleaks for nothing.
Also worth noting that amongst rechargeable NiMH cells, Eneloops as usual came out on top, they’re still apparently the best of the best.
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I don’t say that alkaline never leaks, but some of them are made batter than other and more prone to leaking.
I have many personally cases of destroyed devices from alkaline battery leaks, like duracell leaks in my mini maglite, camelion leaks in digital camera, destroyed clocks, destroyed my philips radio receiver and many other cases which can be repaired sometimes, or can’t be.
New unpacked duracell D size alkaline leaks on my book and acides make a hole throught more than 20 pages 
But from my expirience maxell AA alkaline almost never leaks.
I works in municipality and every two years we have some elections on more than 100 electors places.
We used devices for check of double voting which works on 4xAA so we must buy more than 200 4 pieces AA battery packs to give 2 packs for every place.
Company which got job on tender for supply of election stuff is distributor of maxell and we have bought for 12 years more than 6000 pieces of batteries from them and we don’t have anyone case of leaks. They give us witing warranty that thay will pay for any damaged device caused by battery leaking, so they are sure that thay sell qulity stuff.
I think that this is very credible sample for me to obtain impression that maxell alkaline are very prone to leaking but I don’ t say that it will never happen.
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I have found Duracell seems to leak the most. But the others will leak as well, just less frequently.
I am impressed that the Eneloop is doing the best after more than its rated number of cycles.
I have found in my home, 15 year old Eneloops that still work perfect. They still had a 75% charge and still work almost as good as new. Truly an amazing battery.
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In my experiance, alkalines only started leaking in the late 90s at the earliest for us. I remember reading a few years(ok, maybe a decade… time flies) ago that there was a chemistry change for safety, something was suddenly deemed too toxic to use, and replaced… Then they leaked. I remember doing things to alkaline batteries in the early 90s that are unheard of now. Their heat and cold resitance was much better, and could sit in a device for years without a leak. They’d go deader than dead faster than the later units, but not leak. Also vaguely remember my Dad commenting then on how they had rarely leaked in the past, when we suddenly had a lot of issues. Also remember C and D cells started messing up first, then later AAs and AAAs. (on the other hand I don’t think I’ve ever seen a 9V leak even now. )
There are still brands that will last a lot longer without leaking, usually the generic chinese batts that come in remotes, toys, etc. Capacity/longevity is a lot longer too. I highly suspect this is because they are manufactured with the previous chemical compounds.
As to NIMH, I have a set of 4 Sony AAs, and I think 4 AAAs, that are probably on 3x their rated cycles, that I bought in about 2010. Run time falls faster than they used to, but they still charge and work. Rumor then was that Sony cells were re-wrapped Enloops. Think I might have had an AAA or two die after a decade, can’t remeber for sure. Still a pretty good run before that!
A couple Energizer NIMH that are half as old as the Sonys, still going too. For what its worth, I also have Tenergy LiFPo4 3.4v RCR123 cells from a decade ago that still charge and work, but probably half their initial run times… I’v lost a couple of these too, they weren’t as long lived as the NIMH.
All of those would probably be in better shape if you believe that neither chemistry likes cold weather. 90% of my use of them was in sub 0 weather. I never noticed any problems in use, but who knows how it effected the long term.
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I still have eneloops produced by Sanyo which are old more than 15 years. I have bought it in photographic shop which is closing and sale old stuff. I think that they were old about 10 years when I buy it and when I measure voltage, it was about 1.05-1.1 volts.
Batteries which have biggest number of cucles in my use are Ansmann max e 2100 mah which I have bought 2009 and all works today with 1400-1500 mah capacity after more than 1000 cycles. They get hot at the end of charging but it works.
Yesterday I see new brand of alkaline AA in local shop which have declared capacity on packaging, which is rare for alakaline.
It says 1850 mah, but nowhere I can’t find information which discharge current was when capacity is measured.
For example, if it was disharged with 200ma than 1850 mah is very good capacity for AA alkaline.
I hope you did not buy them.
Duracell also use to have a slogan “the copper top battery” to align itself with a quality product.
I buy it to try.
I paid it 1.60 € for 4pc.