What device even uses this??
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One is shorter than the others. Triple, eh?
I don’t see it ; perspective?
like a 16 gauge or sth
it looks like batteries are screaming like AAAAAAAAA
Any device that it fits…it’s still just 1.5v battery.
There is no difference between AA, or AAA and apparently AAAA other then size.
There is a difference other that size: capacity
There’s a difference in capacity between AA batteries too. So size then…
You could say the same about C and D batteries too.
They’re all 1.5V
I remember needing 4 D batteries for my boombox as a teen. :D
But… does the mythical A battery exist?
It would appear so!
An A battery is usually just called a 17500. They were used in laptop batteries and such but are now used in hobbies more. Mostly for flashlights, vapes, or Lightsaber replicas.
Right - so that is a photo of an AA battery and a drawing of an A battery.
So if I take a photo of a gorilla and draw Sasquatch next to it I have proof of Sasquatch! This is good info to me.
BRB
Ah - so I need to put the drawing on Wikipedia. Noted!
Anything else that’s needed? Quickly please as I’ve already called NYT and CNN
You could read the text next to it. They have an official specification, and they’re occasionally used as cells in larger battery packs, but they never got adopted in consumer products, so you can’t just buy an off the shelf A battery. Nobody has bothered to get a picture of one, because nobody actually cares that much.
Can someone fix this dire state of knowledge?
Thanks - I’m adding some text now next to the drawing about occasional sightings in Canada, but as they don’t care about capturing it nobody has a picture of it. Hence validating my drawing as the only proof.
Honestly it feels like “1/2AA Battery” should just be an “A battery”
An AA battery next to a dimensioned 2D drawing of an A battery (7mm grid).
(This is an placeholder image for A battery section of en:List_of_battery_sizes. To be replaced with an actual example as soon as one comes along.)
Date 19 June 2011
My mistake!
So does the B battery
There’s even C batteries, they were known as baby batteries when I grew up, and quite a few ghetto blasters used them
~17450 with a prefix depending on the battery type.
Every battery is a battery.
A battery has many faces. A battery has no name.
The stylus on a surface pro 7 uses one.
Yep, I bought a pack of these, but then i didn’t need them because I didn’t use the stylus enough/stylus had a good battery life, BUT then when I did want to use the stylus I had no fucking idea where I stored those batteries.
Same goes for the kobo libra 2’s stylus
/c/sounding
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.
You can buy a 9v and open the case with some pliers and then boom. You go yourself some AAAAs
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace the flashlight then?
If his job required constant use of a flashlight a fully rechargeable one would make the most sense. Faster cheaper better
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.
All my remotes use them
Save money buying just 1 AAAA battery and cutting it in half for two AA batteries.
I think they follow Hydra rules, if you cut it in half you end up with an AAAAAAAA battery
Hail Hydraaaaaaaa!
Every single 9 volt battery you’ve used and original Surface Pen.
Only name brand. Take apart a discount 9V and it’s just one big pile.
I’ve only seen the stack one, but I took apart lots of procells
What does your remote use?
USB-C and solar. It’s 2024
Now I feel poor. Thanks.
I haven’t had one that needed anything other than AA or AAA…uh…ever?
What brands are you buying?
I have two vizio tvs and bluray player that all take two aaaa batteries
Edit: just rechecked and they are aaa, not aaaa. I do have a penlight with aaaa though
Yeah, seems like AAA has become the standard. I don’t love it. Seems like they don’t last as long as AA did.
Yeah, mass is kinda like that i think
Well, I mean, in theory they used the smaller ones because they got the power draw down enough that AAAs could power the thing for about the same duration. But obviously not.
Streamlight Stylus LED penlight
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 task to get hold of them.
Wait until you see this:
https://brokensecrets.com/2010/12/20/9-volt-batteries-contain-6-aaaa-batteries/
I took apart a lot of batteries as a kid. The nine volts never had batteries like this inside them.
Since seeing this picture I have disassembled about 50 nine volts looking for this and have found about 3. Some full of coin cells too.
Edit: I should say it was years ago I first saw this picture. I haven’t disassembled 50 batteries in the last 2 minutes
I haven’t disassembled 50 batteries in the last 2 minutes
I reject your edit and substitute the original assumption
