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Subject: [Leica] Strange alkaline battery behaviour
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 19:21:33 -0600
References: <4EE2A5EB.4060904@gmx.de>

Care to share the brand name with us.  I would like to avoid those, if 
possible.  I assume they were from the same batch?

I have been dealing with battery problems of a different sort.  My old Volvo 
that sits outside in a carport failed to crank a couple of days ago.  I 
removed the battery and charged it up and it seems ok.  Then, one of the 
remote controls for the garage door opener quit working.  Thinking it was a 
battery problem ( Lithium CR2032), I replaced it and it still would not 
work.  The old battery and the new one test at full voltage.  Got to assume 
a circuit failure.  Could be that I have to retrain the opener to respond to 
the remote, since it was without power for a few minutes.

Fortunately, the spare remote works.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Douglas Sharp" <douglas.sharp at gmx.de>
To: "LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Friday, December 09, 2011 6:20 PM
Subject: [Leica] Strange alkaline battery behaviour


> 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
>


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