Re: Re: [Leica] PX625's Again

["Bryan Willman" <bryanwi@seanet.com>]

You don't have to freeze them you know.
If you store any battery "cold" (say 34dF)
it should live longer.  Just be sure you
let it warm up before you try to use it.

bmw

- -----Original Message-----
From: George Huczek <ghuczek@sk.sympatico.ca>
To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Date: Sunday, June 28, 1998 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: Re: [Leica] PX625's Again


>At 09:31 PM 27/06/98, you wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>> If I buy them enough for several years, what is the best way to store
>>them?  If they are left in air, do they discharge and poop out?
>>
>David,
>   I store them in a freezer, in spite of advice I have heard over and over
>again recommending not to do so.  I store all my batteries this way
>(nicads, AAs, Vartas, M buttons, 6 & 9 volt alkalines, etc. except wet
>cells, which I don't use) and have never had a problem with anything
>leaking out of them.  I have a spare fridge for film and this kind of
>stuff.  To be safe, keep them in a tupperware container, or wrap them in
>leakproof plastic baggies if you are storing them near food.  They should
>last longer frozen than if left at room temp when not in use.  Pick up
>about a dozen 625s from Canada to offset shipping costs, and you are good
>well into the next millennium.
>
>
>-GH
>