🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 06:55:51 -0700 (PDT), a7yvm109gf5d1@netzero.com
wrote:

>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:
>>
>> > 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
>>
>> > One has to wonder though if the fakers got faked? What's inside the Rubycon
>> > cap?
>>
>> > Dave.
>>
>> 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.
>
>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.

I can vaguely recally the Radio Shack "battery of the month" club.