What device even uses this??
Wait until you see this:
https://brokensecrets.com/2010/12/20/9-volt-batteries-contain-6-aaaa-batteries/
I took apart a lot of batteries as a kid. The nine volts never had batteries like this inside them.
Since seeing this picture I have disassembled about 50 nine volts looking for this and have found about 3. Some full of coin cells too.
Edit: I should say it was years ago I first saw this picture. I haven’t disassembled 50 batteries in the last 2 minutes
I haven’t disassembled 50 batteries in the last 2 minutes
I reject your edit and substitute the original assumption
I should say it was years ago I first saw this picture. I haven’t disassembled 50 batteries in the last 2 minutes
How many batteries can you disassemble in 2 minutes? I’m starting the timer… NOW! Go!
Some have stacked flat cells IIRC.
The carbon-zinc ones never do, but the alkaline ones do, the ones I opened, anyways ( a few decades ago )
Inside of other rectangular batteries.
Usually they’re used in thin devices where a bigger battery wouldn’t fit. Lots of computer styluses take AAAA batteries, including the Microsoft Surface Pen. There are also some small flashlights and laser pointers that use them.
microsoft surface pen is my touchstone for this. the only way i could get new batteries was online and the pen lasted for so long if i bought a pack of 4 batteries i’d have lost the other two but the time they ran or so id need to but a whole new pack.
I’m fairly certain you can take apart most 9 volt batteries to get at the AAAA batteries inside
I despise and ignore battery powered electronics that don’t need 18650s. And i use Arch, BTW. :p
It’s what 9v batteries are made of. 6 AAAA batteries in a box.
Some are. Others are stacked like this:
But… does the mythical A battery exist?
Every battery is a battery.
A battery has many faces. A battery has no name.
Most “batteries” are in fact cells.
It would appear
sonot.Right - so that is a photo of an AA battery and a drawing of an A battery.
So if I take a photo of a gorilla and draw Sasquatch next to it I have proof of Sasquatch! This is good info to me.
BRB
An AA battery next to a dimensioned 2D drawing of an A battery (7mm grid).
(This is an placeholder image for A battery section of en:List_of_battery_sizes. To be replaced with an actual example as soon as one comes along.)
Date 19 June 2011
My mistake!
I think you were right, it does exist, but Wikipedia doesn’t have a picture of one they can legally use. For example I found this:
https://www.batteryequivalents.com/a-size-battery-equivalents-and-replacements.html
Ah - so I need to put the drawing on Wikipedia. Noted!
Anything else that’s needed? Quickly please as I’ve already called NYT and CNN
You could read the text next to it. They have an official specification, and they’re occasionally used as cells in larger battery packs, but they never got adopted in consumer products, so you can’t just buy an off the shelf A battery. Nobody has bothered to get a picture of one, because nobody actually cares that much.
Can someone fix this dire state of knowledge?