🚀 go-pugleaf

On Mar 19, 9:57 pm, Howard Eisenhauer
<howa...@REMOVECAPShfx.eastlink.ca> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:55:51 -0700 (PDT), a7yvm109gf...@netzero.com
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> >On Mar 19, 12:47 am, z <gzuck...@snail-mail.net> wrote:
> >> On Mar 19, 12:24 am, "David L. Jones" <altz...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> >> > Speaking of fake cache SRAM in another post reminded me of this fake
> >> > electrolytic cap. Some might get a laugh out of it:http://www.alternatezone.com/images/FakeCap.jpg
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> >> > One has to wonder though if the fakers got faked? What's inside the Rubycon
> >> > cap?
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> >> > Dave.
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> >> i remember when consumer reports tested rechargable batteries, like in
> >> the 70s, a zillion years before they got popular. except for Radio
> >> Shack rechargables, there wasn't any more capacity in the C or D sizes
> >> than the AA size; which was understandable when they autopsied them
> >> and found that the bigger ones were just AA batteries padded out to
> >> larger size. Except for Radio Shack rechargable batteries, oddly
> >> enough.
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> >Radio Shack always had great batteries. Their gold alkaline cells were
> >outstanding, I have some 15 year old AAA cells that I use once in a
> >while, still good!
> >Same for their blue NiCads, held a charge like crazy, still work after
> >10 years.
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> THE WINAH!!!
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> http://tantel.ca/Images/Holder/sm_battery_1.jpg
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> No, I don't know how old it really is but it came outta an early 60's
> vintage Heathkit VTVM I got on ebay 4-5 years ago, from the logo it
> could actually be original to the unit :/.
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> And yes, that really is the voltage from that battery showing on the
> meter, & yes, I took the pic today (Mar 19/09).
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ah  i see. what you have there is an example of the fabled Vampire
Battery, thought by some to be only an old wives' tale. during the
night, this battery slinks around your house, draining the charge from
your other batteries, in order to keep itself charged forever. if you
have noted that other batteries around your house have died, this is
the reason why.