What device even uses this??
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But… does the mythical A battery exist?
Every battery is a battery.
Most “batteries” are in fact cells.
This is why humans make good batteries.
Humans make terrible batteries, you leave one in a box for 6 months, you come back to a soggy, very stinky box.
Humans are much better as low power space heaters. As long as they have fuel, they’ll maintain a known temperature.
Interlinked
Is a battery with one cell still a battery? Is an empty library still a library? Is an empty breadbox still a breadbox?
A battery has many faces. A battery has no name.
That’s preposterous
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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.
Yeah I bought a 6 pack of them when I bought my pixel slate. They expired after I’d used two
All my remotes use them
I remember when I had a surface tablet, the stylus thing used a AAAA battery
There are six of these in some 9V piles
Which was the secret knowledge for those of us with pen lights or active stylii back in the day that required AAAA cells. And then you’d find a cheap brand of 9v that actually had a stack of nonstandard square cells inside it instead… Bastards.
Certain lantern batteries are filled with AAs as well
I’ve got one that takes AA’s OR 18650’s. Its pretty sweet.
I use them in my active pens.
It’s what 9v batteries are made of. 6 AAAA batteries in a box.
Some are. Others are stacked like this:
I have a wacom-type pen for a tablet that uses one of those. It was a total pain in the ass the time I was traveling and accidentally discharged it by jamming the button in a tight-packaged bag. Turns out, they are pretty much only available online. No normal shop ever stocks them, not even electronics shops nor radio shacks. Barely anyone even heard of them. Tried disassembling a few 9V’s, but all of them were the stacked kind. And with international shipping going 2-6 weeks and me changing locations more often than that, it was an extremely difficult to get hold of them.
When Dan’s Data reviewed these, he said something like “even if you use this in space, you are still no further away from a shop that sells replacements than you would be at home”
I had a pen and pad that copied what it wrote onto a palm pilot that used these.
Old laser pointers used to use quad-As
Old ones
wacom stylus!
Every single 9 volt battery you’ve used and original Surface Pen.
At what amount of As does it indicate the battery is just screaming?
According to Dankpods, it’s 3. But that’s a shriek, not a scream.
I despise and ignore battery powered electronics that don’t need 18650s. And i use Arch, BTW. :p
that don’t need 18650s.
Could you elaborate/educate?
Thank you. Wasn’t sure if that was a type of battery, and I didn’t think that a Google search on just a number would be very successful in pinning it down.
An 18650 battery is a type of lithium-ion rechargeable battery123. The name 18650 comes from its dimensions: it is 18mm in diameter and 65mm in length. The battery has a nominal voltage of 3.7v12and a capacity range from 1800mAh to 3600mAh12. 18650 batteries are commonly used in electronic devices such as laptops and flashlights, as well as in electric vehicles and other high-power applications.
18650 master race
I have a flashlight at work that uses them. It’s a PITA because we don’t stock AAAA batteries at work so they have to be special ordered.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace the flashlight then?
the internet has ruined me.
i’ve seen flashlight twice and keep reading it as fleshlight, and wondering what fleshlight requires batteries.
Get yourself a motor from an.old game controller, shove it in the back, wire it to a power source and rock out
man, I’ll just plug in starfox 64 and a rumble pak. thats how we did it in 1998
Whatever gets you through
How else would it light up your penis
If his job required constant use of a flashlight a fully rechargeable one would make the most sense. Faster cheaper better
You can buy a 9v and open the case with some pliers and then boom. You go yourself some AAAAs
These are common in Microsoft Surface stylus and my Kobo Elipsa pen uses them but I’d never heard of them until 2021.
