Batteries From Pound Stores

[smurfchops]

Do they ruin your radio? I have been told they leak ...

[EDDIE51]

They will probably be the old Zinc/Carbon type which leak once they are dead , so just make sure you take them out as soon as they lose power. Not a good idea to keep them in for a long time if you are not using the radio as well . OK as long as you remember to change them as soon as they die.

[Yorky Lass]

Use them all the time. They are branded names Panasonic, Kodak etc. Never had any problems.

[Old_Geezer]

I suspect, as implied above, it depends on the battery type and thus on the brand. I'm a sucker for trusted brands anyway, hate the thought I might need to replace a battery not long after I'd just put a new one in.

[heathfield]

Our local TKMaxx has Maxell AA and AAA alkaline battery 10-packs at £1.99 each with a 'use by' date of 2018. That's 20p each. They're a good brand, and no different to Duracell that will cost at least 50p each, even discounted. Note what Eddie says. The pound shop batteries are almost always zinc carbon, even the so-called 'Heavy Duty' ones, and have nowhere near the power capacity of alkalines. Nor do they last nearly as long unused.

[jaydj]

Just check the use-by-date on them and you will be fine

[Buenchico]

>>>They are branded names Panasonic, Kodak etc.

Those names are used 'under licence'. i.e. the batteries aren't actually made by those companies.

However I use 'pound shop' batteries all of the time. Some of the zinc ones seem to die within a few minutes but the alkaline ones (branded as Kodak, Polaroid, Panasonic, etc) are just as good as full-priced Duracell batteries (and I've never had any pound shop alkaline batteries leak). Stick to the alkaline ones and you'll have no problems.

[EDDIE51]

One small point, old type zinc/carbon batteries give the full 1.5 Volts , the Alkaline and rechargeable ones are 1.35 to 1.32 volts , most cases it does not make a difference but I had an old 1960s battery clock that would not work on the modern batteries it was fine on the old fashioned cheap ones though.

[Spoonboy]

I suspect Kodak would wish to know why they do, if that was the case.

[gingejbee]

Just make sure you get alkaline ones rather than zinc-carbon. You will get fewer of them, but they are better quality and performance.