Same in an Energizer, the difference is that the cells in a Procell are connected by spotwelded on flat metal strips In an Energizer, pressure alone connects the cells to the top terminals and bottom conductors. That might explain why they sometimes inexplicably fail after a few minutes.
Ron(UK)
If you have Vista and the sidebar applet for currency, you can always see it, and you can always type a figure in and get the exchange value.
Not using what is available is part of what creates slog work, and is itself slog work, ready made.
I though "Procell" was one of those cheap makes you get in Farnell?
Nope, Procells are the same batteries as 'Gold top' Duracells but bulk packed in tens instead of consumer packed.
Ron(UK)
Where are they made? Instead of the usual Duracell from the far east, today my wife brought home one made in Belgium. I expect this is the real thing and the others are fakes.
Geoff.
Does it make sense to situate a battery factory in only one country when your market is the world? One inside the EU can make sense because of favourable trading conditions within that, but high labour costs there means the product is unlikely to be competitive world wide.
Incidentally, I've been looking into the comparative costs of alkaline and lithium and they seem to be priced more or less in direct relation to their claimed life. And since that claimed life will be a best case scenario I won't be changing to them for RM use.
I put lithium in smoke alarms to save the bother of changing them more often.
What sort of life are you getting? Given the price, I'd hope at least five years.
I haven't had one run out yet (18 months and counting). But the Duracells were lasting only 6 months. They're cheap smoke alarms.
That's pretty bad. I've been using leftover Toshibas, and they last at least a year.
I bought 6 smoke alarms at once, so I went for cheap ones. 99p on ebay I believe.
I have never met anyone who wants that blasted sidebar.
Oh, *that's* a smart move. Expected though.
I did of course test them. They detect smoke perfectly well.
I suppose you waved a smoking parrot under each one?
Nah - he waved each of the smoke alarms at his dodgy homemade 12V fusebox.
What do you think set the parrots on fire in the first place? It wasn't his all lead & plastic Chinese smoke alarms.
I love the smell of smoked parrot, in the early dawn of the morning!
A few years back I bought a stack of £1.99 smoke alarms from a supposedly reputable chemists chain (the non-special offer price was quite a bit higher). These alarms became insensitive to smoke after only a couple of months - pressing the test button worked but holding a cigarette to the sensor no longer set it off. The landlord subsequently installed commercial duty rechargeable smoke alarms.
The £1.99 alarms turned out to be good value for the batteries they contained, a handy source of battery clips and I may eventually find a use for the very loud piezo sounders.
Ray-O-Vac is still Ray-O-Vac.
which is owned by Spectrum Brands
No where does it mention Energizer.
Eveready changed their name to Energizer several years ago:
You have to stop believing all of those fake memos.
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