Thread: Another 'Classic' now made .. elsewhere.

Another one bites the dust...
This time my old favourite 'go-to', VARTA. AA batteries. (Bunnings).

I used to use a lot, and for my purposes were as good as the Black Cat or Robot Drummer... and never leaked. Until now...

Cleaning out a drawer and a couple of lifeless AA torches, Managed to get enough remnants out of one to conduct a partial Post-Mortem and.... born in the Far East and now interred in WA landfill. (Ok, Far 'North'....).
-- Too far gone to bother with.
Checked the Butter Shelf in the fridge and only one battery (Gold body/black top) could boast 'Made in Germany', the rest, (Black body / silver top) Traitors !

Looks like going back to removing cells from round the house flashlights, which kind of defeats their purpose. Re-chargeable cells of any decent quality are too many $s.
Such is Life...

I have found rechargeables to be quite useless in emergency equipment. They tend to self discharge at a higher rate than I would like them to and keeping them on a float charge severely limits their lifespan. I own several nitecore LED lights including a head torch which is more often than not "near empty" when I need it for some reason. It holds a single lithium cell.

Having said that, yes decent batteries seem to also be going the way of the dodo. I had a couple of Varta cells that already started leaking and they can't be older than 2 years, probably less...

It's a shame.

-P