[Leica] Strange alkaline battery behaviour

[photo.forrest at earthlink.net (Phil Forrest)]

Cue the "X Files" theme...

Phil Forrest



On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 01:20:59 +0100
Douglas Sharp <douglas.sharp at gmx.de> wrote:

> It sounds like an urbam myth, and I probably wouldn't 
> have believed it if someone else had told me it happened.
> 
> Last night there was a loud bang on my office desk and 
> an alkaline AA battery lying quietly all by itself 
> suddenly started leaking its innards - a smeary 
> brownish gunge - on my desk.
> 
> I had tested the battery earlier in the day, and it was 
> ok (only recently purchased).
> 
> Earlier today, the was a similar bang from the battery 
> compartment of the motor drive of my Leica SL2Mot - the 
> same had happened again with one of the cells. All the 
> other 9 batteries were ok, but this one had obviously 
> decided to commit suicide.
> 
> Has anyone else had problems like this?
> 
> None of the batteries were shorted and none of them 
> were under any kind of load at the time.
> 
> Cheers
> Douglas