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From: schuster@panix.uucp (Michael Schuster)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: AAAA batteries?
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.141636.25725@panix.uucp>
Date: 10 Jun 91 14:16:36 GMT
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In article <1991Jun10.012020.19382@ariel.unm.edu> ee5391aa@triton.unm.edu (Duke McMullan n5gax) writes:
>
>Mike, I can't be sure the size is correct, but if you open up the case on a
>9V battery, you'll find a half-dozen slender cells that I've called "AAAA"
>(unofficially, of course) for years.
>
>Rodeo Schlock has their battery card, which can keep you in smoke detector
>batteries at no additional charge for years to come. (Store `em in the fridge
>...NOT the freezer!)  Get the card; get one of their cheap 9Vers and pop it
>open.  See if they fit.

I've opened 9V's before. They seem to come in two varieties:
a stack of lozenge-shaped discs (zinc-carbon types) and
a pack of cylindrical cells (alkaline). Yes ... perhaps the
latter are close in size to the AAAA's. But the AAAA's packaged
with this flashlight carry the usual gold foil wrappings, complete
with the RS 'Enercell' logo. Will have to investigate this....



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