Energizer ''D'' Batteries.

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

RayOVac is my main brand these days. I find the quality to be as high as
any other battery, and the price is attractive.

I remember them way back when, too, with a cat and a lightning bolt on the
package.

They are not available here in Israel. I miss them and their rechargable
alkeline batteries. What ever happened to them? 10 years ago I found
they were unreliable for many handheld devices because they could
not produce the current required. However since then the amperage
needed for most portable devices has dropped so they would be perfect.

As for Energizer and Duarcell, we get the "offical name brand" batteries
here, but they are made in Singapore and have far less capacity than
the U.S. versions.

We get batteries made in Hong Kong from a company called GPT that
are as good as the Singapore batteries for less money. Office Depot (Israel)
imported some real junk as their house brand, they would swell up and leak
after about 3 months on the shelf. They now rebrand GPT batteries.

Thanks for bringing this up, people occasionaly ask me if it is worth
bringing batteries from the U.S. and I'll tell them to bring the Ray-O-Vac
ones.

Geoff.

 

[William Sommerwerck]

RayOVac is my main brand these days. I find the quality to be

as high as any other battery, and the price is attractive.

I remember them way back when, too, with a cat and a lightning
bolt on the package.

That was Eveready.

I use Costco AA cells. They're made by Toshiba, and cost less than 25 cents.

 

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I have one old Eveready Cat With 9 Lives C cell battery and one old
Burgess nine volt battery.Burgess M6 battery, thin cardboard cover, red
and white and black, vertical white and black stripes around the sides
of the Burgess battery.It has two snap on/snap off style connectors on
top of the battery, similar to modern day nine volt batteries, but the
connectors on my old Burgess battery are spaced further apart, distance
wise.There is a Howard's (Howard's discount stores, they went out of
business around here years ago) store price sticker/label on the Burgess
battey, $1.47.I think my Burgess battery dates back to the 1950s.I think
my old Eveready C cell Cat With 9 Lives battery dates back to the
1960s.About two or three years ago, I saw a website which has the logos
of old, old batteies of various brand names and you can print out the
logos with your computer printer and glue the logos on modern day
batteries.

A couple of buddies of mine collect old, old Railroad related
thingys.One of them owns some old, old big glass batteies like the kind
that the Railroads and other companies used to use many, many years ago.
cuhulin

 

[clifto]

That was Eveready.

Dang, you're right. Last time I saw them was more years ago than I care
to recount.

I use Costco AA cells. They're made by Toshiba, and cost less than 25 cents.

Kirkland. I used to use them a lot. Then Costco quit stocking them in the
stores near me. That's when I found the RayOVac stuff and started using it.
Costco has since started carrying the Kirkland AAs again, but they're 40
for $9.99, and I get half the life out of them that I get out of the
RayOVacs. Back when the alternative was the more expensive Evereadys, it
was a bargain to go Costco and just change batteries twice as often, but
since the equivalent of 60 Kirklands costs the same as (or less than, when
on sale) the 40 Kirklands, I make out better with the RayOVacs.

Most times, 30 RayOVac AA cost $9.99 at Menard's. They occasionally go on
sale or have a rebate, making them even cheaper.

 

[Ron(UK)]

Most times, 30 RayOVac AA cost $9.99 at Menard's. They occasionally go on
sale or have a rebate, making them even cheaper.

I dunno about there, but here in the UK Duracell Procells are generally
on sale from wholesalers at two packs for the price of one

Ron(UK)

 

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I was looking around in some of my junk boxes, I also have an old
RAY-O-VAC yellow and dark blue and red D cell battery.The RAY-O-VAC
trade mark/logo is red with the name Ray-O-VAC in white letters.The red
and white trade mark/logo is between two halves of a vey dark blue dot
on both sides of the battery.Some old batteries are collectible
nowadays, same as many other kinds of old things.Everything Old Is New
Again.
cuhulin