BDK wrote:
says...
That's strange. I have a drawer full of Ray-O-Vac batteries; I've been
using them for years now. The only good rechargeables I have are AA
Ray-O-Vac NiMH. Ray-O-Vac are my second choice after Eveready, but
they're much less expensive than Eveready.
Ray-O-Vac AA's seem to leak more than all the other ones do. I almost
lost a very expensive handheld when a set I had just bought started
leaking. If the battery indicator hadn't dropped like a rock, I wouldn't
have checked them and seen that 3 of the 4 were oozing nasty looking
stuff out of the - end.
I haven't had that problem either. I've had the occasional Energizer leak;
I've had a lot of Kirkland (Costco) batteries leak, but only those that
were lightly used and lasted a long time in the equipment; but I've been
using a whole lot of Ray-O-Vacs over the past few years (I buy the AA
batteries 30 at a time) and no leaks.
Opening my battery drawer, I'm slightly low; I've got 2 D, 14 C, 4 9V,
39 AA and 20 AAA left.
Incidentally, I cut my AA use *greatly* by using NiMH in the DX-398.
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