This was going to be a video on the replacement of batteries in a Luminara candle... Right up to the point I discovered that the ones they supplied with it had leaked badly and corroded the contact plate.
I've done a followup video for Luminara candle owners to recommend they remove the original batteries as soon as possible.
I've done a followup video for Luminara candle owners to recommend they remove the original batteries as soon as possible.
7 years later, this v8d comes up in my recommendations and I dash to the shelf where very similar candle has been sitting since last spring. I pop open the battery door and sure enough, battery spooge. Fortunately it was the earliest of spooges so it was savable. A tip of the top hat to Exceptional Clive.
HW batteries Hi Watt made in china, sadly Chinese zinc chloride batteries are known to leak due to poor construction, even metal clad ones leak, do an autopsy on those C cells an peel the metal case off, under that will be a wafer thin zinc case, it could also be due to the batteries not being sealed properly or the batteries got shorted out in use but chances are it's down to the build quality of the battery. I once bought a torch with rechargeable HW batteries in, they did not take a charge, they were nicads, I tried shocking them thinking they had crystal build up but could not get them working yet my old Ever Ready ones work just fine, Chinese batteries no matter what type of chemistry they are generally not that good, apart from the ones you got on eBay but HW brand are by far the worse.
"This is absolutely fucking annoying" 😉
On that note I restore old radios and found two D cells in a portable radio in perfect condition! They are 40 years old.
Wow old D cells
BLUMINARA 'ELL
You know it's gonna be good when Clive puts up a title like this
vinegar will clean that up
and another reason you never want to see such batteries on the motherboards on arcade and pinball games. Bye bye board. And often as the case with old games bye bye board = bye bye pinball game 🙁
Damn, a failure of that level never happened to me!
I remember when we got these LED candles to put at the graveyard and they lasted almost 1 year, when i went to open them to throw the battery away it used simple chinese Zinc-Carbon of unknown brand and they were still all in one piece
I guess some lots of batteries just are made like crap no matter what?
Strangely, when I leave betteries out for later use (for 1 month), these happen:
Duracell: Completely dead, even with fancy Power-Seal thing
Energizer: Completely loses silver coating, liquid leaks everywhere and corrodes nearby objects
Energizer Advance: Completely dead, rust appears
Bexel (or OEM batteries from Korea): Completely dead with some charge left
Rocket: Horrible leak everywhere
Any zinc carbon battery: Battery crumbles and leaks liquid everywhere and ruins woodwork
I don't know if this is a regional thing, but my room stays at mostly 35~57% RH.
I've once picked up a UPS from a customers Server which showing that the battery is dead. Funny thing is, it wasn't even connected to the server, it was just sitting there and running and doing nothing lol.
When we opened it up, about half of the device was eaten away by corrosion of the leaking battery.
The complete internal structure crumpled to bits when you just tapped on it with a screwdriver.
They decided they didn't need a UPS at all. Until construction started nearby which sometimes lead to under voltage. They noticed some lights sometimes flickering, and the server went out several times.
Bad because even the doorbell and all phones were connected to the server.
And imagine 10 people, every body with at least a masters degree, sitting there not being able to work until somebody from us drove there and switched the Server back on lol