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Article #1129Re: Fake Caps
From: Mark Harriss
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:45
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:45
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z wrote:
>
> 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.
No not at all, it's the only remaining version of a battery design
patent bought by a major oil and electricity company and shelved. It was
a prototype accidentally labelled and released by the factory.
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