exploding mice.....

I've had Duracells leak in two pieces of equipment I own. It damaged one of them, and Duracell had to replace part of the item (an Olympus dictating machine).

I don't use Duracells. I use Eveready and Toshiba.

There's a trick you can do to someone with a USB corded mouse, a low watt resistor and some innards from a smoke bomb.

There's been a problem with counterfeit Duracell batteries for many years:

Yi also had counterfeit Duracell batteries that could explode.

Trainer says he saw counterfeit Duracell batteries for sale at local supermarkets and drugstores recently. He turned the package over, he said, "and the word 'China' was misspelled."

60,000 counterfeit Duracell batteries have recently been found by Cook county sheriff?s police in a warehouse in Elk Grove Village. The counterfeits looked authentic having the copper tops and the shooting star on the packaging. The way the fakes differed from genuine Duracell?s was their potential to explode and also to cause brain damage.

A few years ago, a friend tested two types of batteries sold by Costco, Duracell and Kirkland using his CBA II tester. I'm too lazy to find the emailed results, but as I recall, Duracell were just barely above the specified capacity, while the cheaper Kirkland house brand were well above spec.

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mine has done that twice now, once while I was sitting here and once while I was away, clear liquid from the cell..

Something strange happens now and then that shorts the cell.

I have one of the early model Logitech wireless Ir dual systems.

exploding rats

Some rodents can't burp, belch or fart. Just feed them some bicarbonate of soda, and stand back ...

(no don't do it, I didn't tell you to do it, you did it, ah, ok - what happened?)

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Adrian C

I was always told that food producers often put out plates of coca cola or pepsi and each morning would come in and gather up the dead rodents. All killed without toxic chemicals, well at least in most peoples opinions

Hi!

Well, that's a good thing. At least nothing was damaged and nobody was hurt (apart from the battery).

It's actually quite impressive the amount of current that a shorted (or damaged) alkaline battery will produce. Such a battery can't sustain that sort of energy discharge for very long, but they will put off a LOT of heat for a few seconds--maybe even some light!

NiMH and NiCad batteries have much higher energy storage capacity, and would probably be even more "interesting".

I've had about equal luck with all the major battery brands, and even some surprisingly good results from "store brand" batteries. Sometimes you just get a bad one...

William

Not all of them. It depends on their capacity.

I would be more correct to say that NiMH and NiCad cells have an even lower sournce impedance.