"randomname" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@k70g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:
"Dollar store" is sometimes used by people to refer to Dollar General or other such stores. They're not "Everything's a Dollar" or "Dollar Tree" type stores.
Take a close look at the battery connections. Does it go from + to - to
- to - to + to - to + to -? Your 6V of batteries, for some reason, may have been wired in parallel for 3V. (I.E., they know it's a battery hog but sold it anyway.)
Puckdropper