9v battery terminal blanks?

On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:09:01 -0000, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:

Ron Johnson wrote:
Peter Hucker wrote:


I though "Procell" was one of those cheap makes you get in Farnell?

Nope, Procells are the same batteries as 'Gold top' Duracells but bulk
packed in tens instead of consumer packed.

Where are they made? Instead of the usual Duracell from the far east,
today my wife brought home one made in Belgium. I expect this is the real
thing and the others are fakes.
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I thought all genuine Duracells were made Belgium. But that was a long time ago, they may have built more factories since then.

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 10:40:24 -0000, Dave Plowman (News) <dave@davenoise.co.uk> wrote:

In article <slrngl2kr2.q30.gsm@cable.mendelson.com>,
Geoffrey S. Mendelson <gsm@mendelson.com> wrote:
Where are they made? Instead of the usual Duracell from the far east,
today my wife brought home one made in Belgium. I expect this is the real
thing and the others are fakes.

Does it make sense to situate a battery factory in only one country when
your market is the world? One inside the EU can make sense because of
favourable trading conditions within that, but high labour costs there
means the product is unlikely to be competitive world wide.

Incidentally, I've been looking into the comparative costs of alkaline and
lithium and they seem to be priced more or less in direct relation to
their claimed life. And since that claimed life will be a best case
scenario I won't be changing to them for RM use.
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I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother of changing them more often.

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On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:49:23 -0000, Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogdotyou.knowwhat> wrote:

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:33:27 +0000 (GMT), the renowned Stuart
Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

In article <K9ednW76oay37dLUnZ2dnUVZ_qjinZ2d@earthlink.com>,
Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
I'm in the US, so quid is meaningless to me.

Quid = Pounds, at the current exchange rate = $1.47

If you remember the 3-letter ISO currency codes, Google will do a lot
of the slogwork for you, and more.
Click to expand...
Or just use http://www.xe.com/ucc/


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On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:33:27 -0000, Stuart <Spambin@argonet.co.uk> wrote:

In article <K9ednW76oay37dLUnZ2dnUVZ_qjinZ2d@earthlink.com>,
Michael A. Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
I'm in the US, so quid is meaningless to me.

Quid = Pounds, at the current exchange rate = $1.47
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What happened? I thought wer were approaching $2 per quid.

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I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother
of changing them more often.
Click to expand...
What sort of life are you getting? Given the price, I'd hope at least five
years.
 
In article <op.umol1oq14buhsv@fx62.mshome.net>,
Peter Hucker <none@spam.com> wrote:

What happened? I thought wer were approaching $2 per quid.
Click to expand...
"International financial meltdown". It hasn't just been the US that
has been affected.

When I went over to London for a few days in late October, the pound
was a bit under $2 when I started the trip... right about where it has
been for a long time. About two days after I got there, the UK
financial markets hiccoughed so loudly you could hear 'em from orbit,
and the pound plunged to its lowest rate against the dollar in
decades... I think it was around $1.55 when I left.

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 12:16:22 -0800, Dave Platt wrote:
In article <op.umol1oq14buhsv@fx62.mshome.net>, Peter Hucker

What happened? I thought wer were approaching $2 per quid.

"International financial meltdown". It hasn't just been the US that has
been affected.

When I went over to London for a few days in late October, the pound was a
bit under $2 when I started the trip... right about where it has been for
a long time. About two days after I got there, the UK financial markets
hiccoughed so loudly you could hear 'em from orbit, and the pound plunged
to its lowest rate against the dollar in decades... I think it was around
$1.55 when I left.
Click to expand...
So, you lost money on the trip just changing your money over and back?

Ick! ;-)
Rich
 
Here is how to tell if a 9 volt battery is good.Stick your tongue on
there.
cuhulin
 
In article <pan.2008.12.24.21.49.30.338760@example.net>,
Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

So, you lost money on the trip just changing your money over and back?

Ick! ;-)
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I would have, if I'd changed more money than I really needed.

As I was, I was lucky. Most of what I spent went on a credit card,
and there was enough of a delay in actually posting/clearing the
charges that most of the charges were processed after the pound did
its nose-dive against the dollar. I think I got the favorable
exchange rate on about 90% of what I spent over there.

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:55:35 -0800, the renowned dplatt@radagast.org
(Dave Platt) wrote:

In article <pan.2008.12.24.21.49.30.338760@example.net>,
Rich Grise <rich@example.net> wrote:

So, you lost money on the trip just changing your money over and back?

Ick! ;-)

I would have, if I'd changed more money than I really needed.

As I was, I was lucky. Most of what I spent went on a credit card,
and there was enough of a delay in actually posting/clearing the
charges that most of the charges were processed after the pound did
its nose-dive against the dollar. I think I got the favorable
exchange rate on about 90% of what I spent over there.
Click to expand...
It would be interesting to plot the exchange rates you on your
statement get vs. the highest and lowest rates for a +/- 2 business
day range around the actual posting date of the transaction. Just to
see if they push the transaction time stamp around to retroactively
extract the maximum amount of money from the cardholder. On top of the
2.5% they typically charge above the interbank rate.


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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:16:22 -0000, Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> wrote:

In article <op.umol1oq14buhsv@fx62.mshome.net>,
Peter Hucker <none@spam.com> wrote:

What happened? I thought wer were approaching $2 per quid.

"International financial meltdown". It hasn't just been the US that
has been affected.

When I went over to London for a few days in late October, the pound
was a bit under $2 when I started the trip... right about where it has
been for a long time. About two days after I got there, the UK
financial markets hiccoughed so loudly you could hear 'em from orbit,
and the pound plunged to its lowest rate against the dollar in
decades... I think it was around $1.55 when I left.
Click to expand...
I'm enjoying this "recession" - all my interest rates have fallen, and so have the minimum credit card payments. And shops keep lowering their prices.

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:19:18 -0000, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother
of changing them more often.

What sort of life are you getting? Given the price, I'd hope at least five
years.
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I haven't had one run out yet (18 months and counting). But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months. They're cheap smoke alarms.

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On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:19:18 -0000, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother
of changing them more often.

What sort of life are you getting? Given the price, I'd hope at least five
years.
Click to expand...
I'd prefer to use rechargeables (now that there are low self-discharge ones), but for some reason smoke alarm circuitry is very sensitive to voltage.

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But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months.
They're cheap smoke alarms.
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That's pretty bad. I've been using leftover Toshibas, and they last at least
a year.
 
Peter Hucker wrote:
On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:16:22 -0000, Dave Platt <dplatt@radagast.org> wrote:

In article <op.umol1oq14buhsv@fx62.mshome.net>,
Peter Hucker <none@spam.com> wrote:

What happened? I thought wer were approaching $2 per quid.

"International financial meltdown". It hasn't just been the US that
has been affected.

When I went over to London for a few days in late October, the pound
was a bit under $2 when I started the trip... right about where it has
been for a long time. About two days after I got there, the UK
financial markets hiccoughed so loudly you could hear 'em from orbit,
and the pound plunged to its lowest rate against the dollar in
decades... I think it was around $1.55 when I left.

I'm enjoying this "recession" - all my interest rates have fallen, and so have the minimum credit card payments. And shops keep lowering their prices.
Click to expand...

Till they go out of business.

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On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:17:35 -0000, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months.
They're cheap smoke alarms.

That's pretty bad. I've been using leftover Toshibas, and they last at least
a year.
Click to expand...
I bought 6 smoke alarms at once, so I went for cheap ones. 99p on ebay I believe.

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On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:43:09 -0000, Ron(UK) <ron@lunevalleyaudio.com> wrote:

Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article <Xns9B7B975B7ABBBzoodlewurdle@216.196.109.145>,
Lostgallifreyan <no-one@nowhere.net> wrote:

Ron wrote:
In your opinion maybe. Professionals in the sound industry use
quality replaceable batteries, they are reliable - reliability means
_everything_ when a show (or your job) is at stake.


Lame. I keep hearing this silly excuse. This is consumer high-street
shop level thinking. The whole audio industry is riddled with it. For
decades dull black boxes have been shifted with the letters PRO on
them, regardless of how tacky they are, never has an industry blown its
trumpet so loudly.

Err, we're talking radio mics here. And pro ones are in a different league
to the low end stuff. They have to be rugged - and possible to fix if
damaged.

In an industry where possibly 40 or 50, radio packs may be used nightly
on a single live show, do you really think they would use the more
expensive solution of using replacable batteries without good reason if
they could get away with using rechargables and saving money?
One microphone failure on a West End or Broadway show could cost a lot
of money and someone his or her job.

Ron(UK)
Click to expand...
If you use decent NiMH batteries, and only use them for a year, you will be no more likely to have a flat mic than if you use alkalines.

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On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:27:00 -0000, ItsASecretDummy <secretasianman@thebarattheendoftheuniverse.org> wrote:

On Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:49:23 -0500, Spehro Pefhany
speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote:


If you remember the 3-letter ISO currency codes, Google will do a lot
of the slogwork for you, and more.

If you have Vista and the sidebar applet for currency, you can always
see it, and you can always type a figure in and get the exchange value.

Not using what is available is part of what creates slog work, and is
itself slog work, ready made.
Click to expand...
I have never met anyone who wants that blasted sidebar.

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On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 00:40:20 -0000, <cuhulin@webtv.net> wrote:

Here is how to tell if a 9 volt battery is good.Stick your tongue on
there.
cuhulin
Click to expand...
Why do people think this is sore? It just tickles.

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In article <op.umr889dw4buhsv@fx62.mshome.net>, none@spam.com
says...>
On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 21:17:35 -0000, William Sommerwerck <grizzledgeezer@comcast.net> wrote:

But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months.
They're cheap smoke alarms.

That's pretty bad. I've been using leftover Toshibas, and they last at least
a year.

I bought 6 smoke alarms at once, so I went for cheap ones. 99p on ebay I believe.
Click to expand...
Oh, *that's* a smart move. Expected though.
 
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