If you missed out on DickSmith's '1 Day Sale' for the $1.00 batteries, here is your chance to grab them. These are Kodak branded instead of Fujitsu. Limit of 6 per customer.
Thanks to TheVoucherKing for the free shipping.
AA 10pk for $1.97
AAA 4pk is $1.38 or get the AAA 10pk for $1.97.
Dear God, Carbon batteries! Surely there should be no reason carbon batteries are still manufactured?
Carbon sequestration from the atmosphere perhaps? ;)
LOL….I stand corrected!
'Air' batteries FTW! The more carbon we create the cheaper it would be to manufacture batteries! Free (well 'cheap') energy for all :)
These are carbon-zinc batteries. Very low capacity, power and shelf life compared to alkalines. Just more landfill.
Alkalines such as Varta at Bunnings only cost a few cents more.
These batteries should be banned along with incandescent light bulbs.
True but something that many forget is with all the 'improvements' in technology there's always a flipside. It's great to consider the waste aspect at the upper levels and I can't agree more that it's better to buy Rechargeables or Alkalines instead of these batteries or LEDs/CFLs instead of Incandescents however thinking that little bit deeper, what negative effect do Alkalines, NiMHs, LiIons, LiPos, LiFEs, CFLs & LEDs have on the environment during manufacturing and/or disposal in the long term? It's a tough choice but it may be better for us to leave landfills full of Incandescent bulbs (basically just metal & glass) and Carbon Zinc batteries (pretty basic compounds) for future generations to deal with instead of filling them with mercury and other nasty elements & chemicals leaching out of the modern alternatives. Of course all this is solved by responsible recycling so the more of that we do the less of an issue this will be.
what negative effect
Not so much. The NiCd batteries are bad if not recycled (Cadmium toxicity) but are nearly phased out now.
CFL bulbs only have a tiny amount of mercury, much less than linear floros, which is not significant compared to the emissions they save from coal-power smoke stacks.
Kodak still exists? Thought they have gone belly up.
Bankruptcy is not always permanent. They were "reinvented" as patent trolls, and then sold a lot of patents to the victims for a half billion dollars or so.
But this may be a case of licensing their name to a battery company, as kodak-branded batteries have long been sold in camera shops.
2 concerns about this deal.
Don't buy these with high expectations. I'm expecting a call from 1985 any minute now asking for their batteries back!
They could have been old stock in 2011. So may be more than 5 years old. Almost as bad as those horrid batteries you can buy 1000 for $2 at your local junk oops I mean "bargain" shop.
Yeah I shouldn't have used the word Almost, you're right there's a good chance these are over 5 years old. I don't know how well Carbon Zinc retains charge lying dormant but I'd hazard a guess these are probably ~50% depleted already.
They're actually really really bad, which is why you don't see them much. Check this out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%E2%80%93carbon_battery#Le…
And the link Tiggrrrrr below posted shows a good performance comparison, whilst I don't claim to fully understand those charts I don't think I need to. The Kodaks are barely on the map.
I think the claim of ~50% depletion might have been generous, these things could quite likely ship dead lol.
Might need to buy the 10 packs to find a working cell :)
EDIT: Not sure what's worse, these batteries or the fact that Kogan paid money for them in the first place.
Damn that's a brand I haven't seen in a long time..
They work fine in clocks and remotes at least
Many clocks run slow on run down batteries.
All remotes lose range/reliability as the batteries die. You end up getting up close and personal with the screen and swearing like a frustrated demon.
Yeah PLEASE don't use these things in your TV remotes, nothing more agrivating than having to walk up to the TV to make the TV remote work :)
I use Eneloops or Alkalines, they last a lot longer.
They work fine in clocks and remotes at least
Bad choice. You want long shelf life for low-drain applications. Alkalines can last for years in a remote.
Yeah, looks like it :
Notable disappointments
Zinc cells did very poorly, but this was expected as the chemistry is not optimised for high drain applications. The JCB cell didn't even manage 20mAh. It would probably not power anything demanding any significant current, due to its discharge characteristic, which rapidly falls past the 0.8V cut-off point. However, it is marketed as "Not suitable for digital cameras or motorised devices." Interestingly, self-heating of the cell lead to an increase in voltage as the discharge progressed, but data below 0.8V is not included in the mAh calculation. The Kodak cell has a similar disclaimer, although it did do a little better, it's still unlikely to work well.
I didn't know about those characteristics flaws of Zinc cells. Interesting.
Just googled shelf life…
"When stored at room temperature (i.e. 70°F/ 21°C), cylindrical alkaline batteries have a shelf life of 5 to 10 years and cylindrical carbon zinc 3 to 5 years"
So these batteries are almost surely dead or near dead when they arrive, given they are likely >5yrs old already. Very dodgy…
Be careful, these are standard 'Carbon Zinc' chemistry, not Alkalines as per the Fujitsus from the Dick Smith sale! Still wouldn't be bad in basic devices however after decades of marketing I'm led to believe Alkalines keep Bunnies drumming longer ;)