14-04-2017, 12:36 PM
Ooh nasty!
I'm surprised as I thought Panasonic were a reliable brand - there are quite a few around that aren't.
I bought a box of 100 alkaline AAs from Maplin about three or four years ago which had a nasty habit whereby one cell in a set of, say four, failed prematurely and would then reverse charge so that a 6V battery would suddenly drop to 4.5V then head rapidly down to 3V as the duff cell reverse charged, giving 4.5 -1.5 = 3V!
By the time I'd sussed out why I was suddenly getting short battery life in more that one piece of equipment and took the whole box back for a refund, I could see that some of the new cells were just starting to leak.
The best alkaline cells that I've found, both for consistently even capacity and failure to leak are the Kodak Extralife batteries widely found in Pound shops in packs of 4 - but I buy mine in Poundland where they are always sold packs of 4 with 2 extra free, so 6 for a pound or 16.66p each.
I'm surprised as I thought Panasonic were a reliable brand - there are quite a few around that aren't.
I bought a box of 100 alkaline AAs from Maplin about three or four years ago which had a nasty habit whereby one cell in a set of, say four, failed prematurely and would then reverse charge so that a 6V battery would suddenly drop to 4.5V then head rapidly down to 3V as the duff cell reverse charged, giving 4.5 -1.5 = 3V!
By the time I'd sussed out why I was suddenly getting short battery life in more that one piece of equipment and took the whole box back for a refund, I could see that some of the new cells were just starting to leak.
The best alkaline cells that I've found, both for consistently even capacity and failure to leak are the Kodak Extralife batteries widely found in Pound shops in packs of 4 - but I buy mine in Poundland where they are always sold packs of 4 with 2 extra free, so 6 for a pound or 16.66p each.
