Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!sparkyfs!hercules!cslb.csl.sri.com!faunt From: faunt@dustbin.cisco.com (Doug Faunt N6TQS 415-688-8269) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: Panasonic speakerphone forbids alkaline batteries Message-ID: Date: 5 Jul 90 19:07:24 GMT References: <840@sagpd1.UUCP> <9382@pogo.WV.TEK.COM> Sender: usenet@csl.sri.com Distribution: usa Organization: cisco Systems, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 9 In-reply-to: bobt@pogo.WV.TEK.COM's message of 5 Jul 90 17:08:33 GMT >I have never seen or heard of an >alkaline battery leaking where I have had many carbon zinc batteries leak. >These people have been fed some WRONG information. I can't address the original issue, but I have a flashlight at home that's got alkalines inside it, that have leaked so bad I haven't gotten them out yet. Soon, though. -- faunt@cisco.com 415-688-8269