Get these…they don’t leak and they are not some last bin sorted crap.
Is more that something changed for the worse with alkaline batteries regardless of brand. ALL of them leak, even in the package after a short while.
Cheap Dollar Tree Store AA's is the only batteries I buy for the E-Caller. I just toss them and refill fresh ( 10 AA's ) battery carriage after every time I go out .
FP and Lucky Duck both have a parasitic drain on batteries, can confirm from first hand experience. I have five callers, only two of them are currently in use. I pulled out the other three to loan out to friends, and they all said my batteries were dead/near dead.
I do, battery changes are quite often, however, I've never used AB batteries, hence why I'm asking. I don't know how far down the bottom of the barrel they are, and if they leak just by looking at them.
For some devices rechargeables are great. Lithium chemistry so get all the life and safety expectations but if freezing weather is possible, I avoid them. The electrolyte in lithium batteries is still prone to freezing. They make low-temp batteries but all other considerations aside, they don't do them in AAs! Anyway, when the electrolyte freezes it works less well AND freezing causes permanent damage.Went from using alkaline batteries in my cams and changing them 2-3 times a year, to buying lithium and changing them once a year.
HOWEVER... lithium battery prices being what they are, it's now cheaper to change them 3-4 times year.
For a call, where there's really no good reason to leave them in all the time, leaking would be the least of my concerns.
Yeah I don't touch anything rechargeable that gets exposed to elements for extended/frequent periods of time, it's a severe waste. I also carry double the amount of batteries I need, just in case anyone on my team needs some spares, and I'm not going to start handing out rechargeables.
Yes, that's why I was asking to see if anyone had experiences that differ from the assumption of quality. But you know, here we are, 23 posts into a topic where the subject wasn't discussed at all, and that's how asking questions on the internet works.
Nope. Amazon wants their Basics to be considered baseline-but-quality so get pretty good to as-good-as-it-gets quality for many things. Their rechargeables, for example, at least used to be from the same factory as Eneloops. Anecdotally, I have had crazy good results, and their lithium 9v is my standard because the Energizers are weirdly squared off, so do not FIT into some devices I own! (I wish they made a lithium primary AA).
