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AA batteries in AAA slot?

If you have a Harbor Freight nearby, try getting some NiMH AAAs. Might also be available at Fry's, Target, Wal-Mart. You in Canada?

I'm not a fan of alkalines, either.

Michael

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mrdarrett
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Look behind that package -- I'll bet there's another one on the peg. :-)

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Regards,
        Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It\'s time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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Doug Miller

snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com wote:

Yup, Canada. I'm still liking my original idea of using larger sizes in smaller slots rather than using geniune AAA batteries; perhaps because they last longer, or perhaps because I like playing God. (Cue lightning, evil music and laughter, and shadowy scenes of me forcing D batteries into AAA slots)

Doug Miller wote:

HARDY HAR HAR, FUNNY. :P I meant per package. Though even if I could find them in larger quantities, I still like the major life advantage of the larger sizes.

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phantom

They really are *not* hard to find. You're just not looking in the right places yet, e.g.

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Regards,
        Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It\'s time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.
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Doug Miller 

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Yup. 

Check out:

http://www.batterybob.com/category.asp?cat=9002

Notice that in quantities of 500 the AAA\'s are still 3 cents more
expensive, each, than the AA\'s.

Also, the AA\'s have a capacity of around 2450mAH, while the AAA\'s
can only put out 1120mAH, so the cost per ampere-hour for the AA\'s
is:


            $0.19     $0.0775
    nAA = -------- = ---------
           2.45AH       AH


While for the AAA\'s it\'s


             $0.22     $0.196
    nAAA = -------- = ---------
            1.12AH       AH


So the cost for the AAA\'s, per ampere-hour, is about 2.5 times the
cost of AA\'s, and (neglecting the differences in the spec\'s for the
rate of discharge between the two) they only last about half as
long.
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John Fields

Reminds me of powdered sugar (I needed some for a fudge recipe).

Powdered sugar costs about double the cost, per unit mass, of regular granulated sugar.

If you make powdered sugar yourself by putting granulated sugar in a coffee grinder, you will find that 1/4 cup of granulated sugar makes

1/2 cup of powdered sugar.

So you're paying double the price for half of something that you could make yourself.

Michael

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mrdarrett

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