On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:22:38 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:


"Short Wave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:47:48 -0500, "Eisboch" wrote:

My daughter-in-law sent me an email with a video that has the following
advice:

Instead of paying 5 bucks or more for a package of four, AAA batteries,
buy
a $4-$5 , 6 volt lantern battery instead.

These are the ones that are about 3" by 3" by 6" and have the spring
electrical connectors on the top.
Remove the label, pry off the top of the case with a screwdriver and snip
the internal wire connectors going to the springs.

Invert the case and dump out 32 brandy new AAA batteries.

That doesn't make any sense.

How do you get 6 volts out of 32 1.5 volts in series? That's 48
volts.

I thought they contained four 1.5 volt square pack cells in series.

I wuz duped.

Been there - done that - wrote the book.

One time, I went to Vermont to participate in a good old fashioned
sugar boil. The tree farmer gave me a tap and a hammer, pointed out a
tree and sent me on my way. I pounded the tap into the tree, but I
couldn't figure out why the tree was screaming.

Turns out it wasn’t a sap maple after all, just a run-of-the-mill
Vermont hippie that the farmer didn't like.

Damned farmer.