And the answer is they are just as nasty and anyone using the Energizer Ultimate AA Li cells in series is asking for trouble.
I'll do a full posting, but for now be very careful. I have all these alarm system components that run off of (4) AA cells. I was using lithium outside, but the outside horns would drop dead without warning, cells dead. I also had installed Li AA in the inside units, why risk a AA acid meltdown.
An inside alarm started beeping that the cells were low. Took it down -- only two months, the previous set of alkaline lasted over a year? So I wised up and tested the four cells, didn't just toss them. The pulse load meter said one was at 80%, two at 20%, and one zero volts.
Now I think that applications such as these that pull small currents likely can't cause enough bad current flow to pop a cell like a flashlight. So no explosions for me -- but flashlight users beware. If you want the worst possible reliability, series up some Ultimate Lithium cells.
I'll do a full posting, but for now be very careful. I have all these alarm system components that run off of (4) AA cells. I was using lithium outside, but the outside horns would drop dead without warning, cells dead. I also had installed Li AA in the inside units, why risk a AA acid meltdown.
An inside alarm started beeping that the cells were low. Took it down -- only two months, the previous set of alkaline lasted over a year? So I wised up and tested the four cells, didn't just toss them. The pulse load meter said one was at 80%, two at 20%, and one zero volts.
Now I think that applications such as these that pull small currents likely can't cause enough bad current flow to pop a cell like a flashlight. So no explosions for me -- but flashlight users beware. If you want the worst possible reliability, series up some Ultimate Lithium cells.
