What are these battries ?
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Good day folks. Nice and straightforward here: my Braun electric shaver which I've used for the past 5-6 years could definitely do with some new batteries since they're on the wane after such a long time and I feel the need to recharge it a lot more often.
After a lot of effort, since it's waterproof and sealed very tightly, I managed to finally crack the shaver open and get to the batteries buried deep inside. Being that it's a fairly modern device, I was expecting to find a lithium battery in there, but instead I was met by THESE....I though "ok, simple enough. AA NiMh batteries, but then I had a closer look at them and there's a catch: literally, there's a catch at each end They're the most bizarre things ever and as far as I'm concerned they may very well exist in just this one device only. The cell has got two little nipples at each end which engage with some clips in the holder to hold the batteries and also make contact. Outside of that, they're identical in size to AA batteries, but I just couldn't come up with a good (enough) idea of holding them in there, because there's no springs like in normal AA holders - they rely solely on those metal "snaps" to hold them in there, so a regular AA would just fall out, even though I'm sure it would work just fine electrically. I was thinking of shoehorning a washer or something in there, but it wouldn't stay put...my local electronics store WAS able to identify these cells and source them for me, but the price was rather high and I wasn't sure it was worth it, so I thought I'd do some digging on my own. There's no specs on them either (as far as I remember at least, because I don't seem to have taken any pictures all around the label and I'm only assuming that's because there was no info in those areas).
Any ideas as to what these are ? I HATE it when they do stuff like this just to force you to throw away a perfectly good device. I CAN use it with the adapter, but what's the point ? I don't have an outlet in my bathroom and certainly don't want to lug an extension cord with me when I travel....damn crooks :|
Good day folks. Nice and straightforward here: my Braun electric shaver which I've used for the past 5-6 years could definitely do with some new batteries since they're on the wane after such a long time and I feel the need to recharge it a lot more often.
After a lot of effort, since it's waterproof and sealed very tightly, I managed to finally crack the shaver open and get to the batteries buried deep inside. Being that it's a fairly modern device, I was expecting to find a lithium battery in there, but instead I was met by THESE....I though "ok, simple enough. AA NiMh batteries, but then I had a closer look at them and there's a catch: literally, there's a catch at each end
They're the most bizarre things ever and as far as I'm concerned they may very well exist in just this one device only. The cell has got two little nipples at each end which engage with some clips in the holder to hold the batteries and also make contact. Outside of that, they're identical in size to AA batteries, but I just couldn't come up with a good (enough) idea of holding them in there, because there's no springs like in normal AA holders - they rely solely on those metal "snaps" to hold them in there, so a regular AA would just fall out, even though I'm sure it would work just fine electrically. I was thinking of shoehorning a washer or something in there, but it wouldn't stay put...my local electronics store WAS able to identify these cells and source them for me, but the price was rather high and I wasn't sure it was worth it, so I thought I'd do some digging on my own. There's no specs on them either (as far as I remember at least, because I don't seem to have taken any pictures all around the label and I'm only assuming that's because there was no info in those areas).Any ideas as to what these are ? I HATE it when they do stuff like this just to force you to throw away a perfectly good device. I CAN use it with the adapter, but what's the point ? I don't have an outlet in my bathroom and certainly don't want to lug an extension cord with me when I travel....damn crooks :|
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