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Offline chillie

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« on: November 27, 2010, 01:30:59 AM »
Guys, we all know that we need to change the batteries in our pins and tonight I decided to do my games normally I do them between Christmas and New year. Well I have 15 games to change out and yes it was earlier than a year but it was worth it as I had 3 sets of bad batteries and on one game a battery that had puked everywhere.

Thank god for remote battery holders as I was lucky and the bad battery was on a game with a remote.(The only one)

The big warning is that the batteries that went bad are duracell regular copper tops I remember others posting bad stories about these batteries . My point is that these did not even last a year so if you have these installed go now and check them.

Best of luck

chris
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Offline ddstoys

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« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2010, 01:37:39 AM »
Always good to get a reminder.   And your bad experience will hopefully motivate people to check there games bloody acid grrrr
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Re: Batteries
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2010, 08:50:22 AM »
Quote from: chillie on November 27, 2010, 01:30:59 AM
The big warning is that the batteries that went bad are duracell regular copper tops I remember others posting bad stories about these batteries . My point is that these did not even last a year so if you have these installed go now and check them.

Spot on Chris, this happened to me a couple of months ago, less than a year old Duracells leaked all over my FH board, and Nug's still trying to get that fixed.

I installed remotes to everything after that, perhaps the most useful mod there is.

Anyone recommend another brand of battery? Too many of us are getting caught with these "quality" batteries!!
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Re: Batteries
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2010, 10:00:48 AM »
Remote battery holders are the way to go, too risky no matter what brand of batteries you use
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Re: Batteries
« Reply #4 on: November 27, 2010, 10:06:22 AM »
Can someone please post a picture of a remote battery holder and a non remote holder so we can see what the differance is. Thanks
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Re: Batteries
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Re: Batteries
« Reply #6 on: November 27, 2010, 11:27:18 AM »
Quote from: ddstoys on November 27, 2010, 01:37:39 AM
bloody acid grrrr

Actually it's "bloody alkaline" (the opposite to acid and the reason you use acid, vinegar, to neutralise the effects)  - hence 'alkaline batteries'
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Re: Batteries
« Reply #7 on: November 27, 2010, 11:39:18 AM »
Learn something new every day.  Thanks mike
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