What device even uses this??

    • mihnt@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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.

    • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
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      3 months ago

      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

        • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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

          • ZephrC@lemm.eeEnglish
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            3 months ago

            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.

            • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
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              3 months ago

              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.

        • can@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          3 months ago

          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

      • Oisteink@feddit.nlEnglish
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        3 months ago

        There’s even C batteries, they were known as baby batteries when I grew up, and quite a few ghetto blasters used them