Perdix AI AA Battery
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Jackie Treehorn
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You guys act like these batteries are radioactive...
From Shearwater's site:
"For most users, the standard AA alkaline batteries offer a good balance of performance and cost. The major disadvantage of alkaline batteries is that can they leak corrosive fluids, especially when fully discharged. Do not store your computer with alkaline batteries installed for more than 1 or 2 months."
Factors Affecting Battery Life on Shearwater Dive Computers - Shearwater Research
Seems reasonable to me.
From Shearwater's site:
"For most users, the standard AA alkaline batteries offer a good balance of performance and cost. The major disadvantage of alkaline batteries is that can they leak corrosive fluids, especially when fully discharged. Do not store your computer with alkaline batteries installed for more than 1 or 2 months."
Factors Affecting Battery Life on Shearwater Dive Computers - Shearwater Research
Seems reasonable to me.
Genuine Saft LS batteries are made in (at least) France, UK and China. Thus they don't have to be made in France to be genuine and up to spec.
I have used 3v/1500 mAh CR12600SE batteries under the SANYO and FDK label...
broncobowsher
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I started with an Alkaline. Got good life out of it. Dropped in a SAFT for a big trip, after a week I don't think it hardly dropped. But got burned on some crap/fake SAFTs and gave up on them.
Right now my go to battery is the Energizer Lithium. Really good life and value wise better than Alkaline. I'll spend the big bucks on a real SAFT for a big trip. But not for weekend trips.
With the life/cost factor of the Energizer Lithium I don't see any value to an Alkaline. The only saving grace is you can get one at the marina when you find you didn't prep the gear correctly before you left home. Or you can steal one from a flashlight or something else at the last moment. The ability to accept a common battery is a huge win.
Right now my go to battery is the Energizer Lithium. Really good life and value wise better than Alkaline. I'll spend the big bucks on a real SAFT for a big trip. But not for weekend trips.
With the life/cost factor of the Energizer Lithium I don't see any value to an Alkaline. The only saving grace is you can get one at the marina when you find you didn't prep the gear correctly before you left home. Or you can steal one from a flashlight or something else at the last moment. The ability to accept a common battery is a huge win.
The kind of are. Just yesterday one of my motorized window blinds stopped working. Pulled the battery pack and pretty much all of the 10 AA batteries in it were leaking. Big mess, had to clean the contacts etc. Probably 18 months old.
14500 batteries for myself. Very happy.
Jackie Treehorn
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10AA batteries to run a motor????
I'm no DC expert my any stretch.... but wouldn't it be more of an apples to apples comparison to consider load and compare a single AA device to another single AA device.... like the millions of other electronics that we use day in and day out without issue?
Just pulled a few junk remotes out of a drawer... over ten years with AA in them.... all just fine.
Guess its time to replace all those batteries with SAFT batteries now.
That is not *my* TLDR - that is literally copied from the Shearwater FAQ. The FAQ and video also include more information about all the various types of batteries.
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