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michael cumming · 16th Jan 2012, 4:20 pm

I have seen them made by Energizer. They come packaged two on a card, hard to find but I'm sure some Bluetooth head sets take these. I wonder what other uses they have. I hacked a Duracell PP3 and six of these were inside in series. You won't find these in cheap zinc carbon PP3s as they use layer cells like they did in the old days. Those 12V small round batteries that are used in car key fobs have button cells inside but not sure of the size, saying that though Pifco do a card of assorted sizes of button cells so may well not be worth hacking one for this purpose. That small Standard Micronic Ruby Radio uses those type of button cells.

I once found a large hearing aid battery by Ever Ready that had a load of those D23s or N cells inside. It was a HT battery for a Bonocord aid that used miniature valves. the battery was a W1435 and was a 52.5V one.

16th Jan 2012, 4:20 pm	#12
michael cumming Retired Dormant Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Durham Posts: 205	Re: Sourcing batteries/cells thought to be obsolete. I have seen them made by Energizer. They come packaged two on a card, hard to find but I'm sure some Bluetooth head sets take these. I wonder what other uses they have. I hacked a Duracell PP3 and six of these were inside in series. You won't find these in cheap zinc carbon PP3s as they use layer cells like they did in the old days. Those 12V small round batteries that are used in car key fobs have button cells inside but not sure of the size, saying that though Pifco do a card of assorted sizes of button cells so may well not be worth hacking one for this purpose. That small Standard Micronic Ruby Radio uses those type of button cells. I once found a large hearing aid battery by Ever Ready that had a load of those D23s or N cells inside. It was a HT battery for a Bonocord aid that used miniature valves. the battery was a W1435 and was a 52.5V one.