more like a kickstarter or "Go fund me" heck let's have Dave startup a whole new company! Say $200K?
SO many things here. NiMH at 1.5v, however for AA and AAA they have full 1.5v NiMH, expensive though.
Class Action suit. Does the advertising on the packaging itself say "Guaranteed for 10 years" ? or up "up to 10 years guaranteed"? is there one of those tiny * or cross or whatever that you have to search all over the back for the limitations? Plus, anyway, so they leak and they give you a free replacement -uh, the device is damaged! or will repair.. How do you repair a battery? even computer tablets or other low-cost devices, they just swap you a new one, and send the "defective" one back to the factory, where they collect 100's of them and sell them to some ebay seller for pennies per unit!
Ah yes, the guarantee!. how about the "lifetime guarantee" when it does go bad and you find the company, a reputable large American company, already went out of business? OOPS!
For me, what about the time you put fresh alks. in use it, put it away thinking your going to use it next week or so...stuff comes up or change and you forget to pull then and Yay, LEAKAGE!
For me Re-chargeables where they work, those AA 1.5v lith for what is long-term, Lith-ion for all those odd voltages and sizes, and alks....only if I have to. I dread inserting new alkaline batteries.
One thing. I just cannot buy Energizer batteries and even remove them in devices that are sold with them. It comes from one experience. I bought a set of 4 in that plastic packaging. I went to open the package to use then after the purchase:
all 4 had leaked and the use-by date, was, long into the future. basically, I estimate manufactured one month ago. This soured me on Energizer brand, and now always Duracell. point here is. people swear by varying brands and types, yet, one experience like that and they lose a customer FOREVER and tells everyone else their experience.
hmm, maybe I should have called them for a replacement. OOPS!
temp and humidity chamber sounds great!
Dave: maybe a bulk purchase for all of us, with a great discount? say 100,000 chambers for, what? $99?? how about that kickstarter? and we ALL get one as a gift? kinda like what Oprah used to do?
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OOPS! just re-checked your temp/humidity chamber price.. so $500K kickstarter!, Oh WTF, let's just go for a million $$ kickstarter!