" Ok.. but can you back that up with some reasoning or is that just a random
statement?

Yea it is called Internal Resistance.

There is a time to pinch pennies and a time not to pinch pennies.

This is not a time to pinch pennies. Trash the old battery and get a
new one.

All the best,

Tom
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