Sunday, April 28, 2013

Batteries

Is it just me, or have the price of batteries gone up significantly the past few years?

MBtGE showed me a cheap source of 4 D-Cells.  Your big-box home centers like Home Despot often have big cheap plastic flashlights on the end of the aisle.  It comes with one of those big block cube of a battery with 2 springs on the top.  These are often called a lantern battery.  The whole thing is often much cheaper than a pack of 4 D-cells, but if you pry the casing of the cube, inside, is 4 D-cells.  But don't destroy the lantern battery upon purchase.  Maybe the thing you need the D's is for light and heck, it comes with a cheap disposable flashlight.
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3 comments:

  1. jon spencerApril 28, 2013 at 8:28 AM

    But only sometimes there are D's are inside.

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  2. DLSApril 28, 2013 at 10:33 AM

    If battery power is proportional to battery volume, and I suspect it is, then filling a lantern battery with 4 D cells (crappy D cells too, I'm sure) is really cheaping out.

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  3. Old NFOApril 28, 2013 at 8:48 PM

    Yep, they are usually seconds that couldn't be sold as 'good' D-cells.

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