What device even uses this??
The stylus for a surface tablet uses one AAAA battery, and it will last for hundreds of hours of use. I wish I still had mine, as my surface tablet was my art tablet and I miss doing art. Nobody pay attention to the fact I was bad at it.
/c/sounding
Old laser pointers used to use quad-As
Where they made by Ubisoft?
They are only sold as a temporary license. Then Ubisoft breaks into your house and takes them away.
But… does the mythical A battery exist?
It would appear
sonot.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
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!
I think you were right, it does exist, but Wikipedia doesn’t have a picture of one they can legally use. For example I found this:
https://www.batteryequivalents.com/a-size-battery-equivalents-and-replacements.html
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.
So does the B battery
Funny. I have 3rd-party scripts disabled and it spawns endless search fields.
Every battery is a battery.
A battery has many faces. A battery has no name.
It’s what 9v batteries are made of. 6 AAAA batteries in a box.
Some are. Others are stacked like this:
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
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.
Yeah I bought a 6 pack of them when I bought my pixel slate. They expired after I’d used two
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.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to replace the flashlight then?
the internet has ruined me.
i’ve seen flashlight twice and keep reading it as fleshlight, and wondering what fleshlight requires batteries.
How else would it light up your penis
Get yourself a motor from an.old game controller, shove it in the back, wire it to a power source and rock out
man, I’ll just plug in starfox 64 and a rumble pak. thats how we did it in 1998
If his job required constant use of a flashlight a fully rechargeable one would make the most sense. Faster cheaper better
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.
There are six of these in some 9V piles
Which was the secret knowledge for those of us with pen lights or active stylii back in the day that required AAAA cells. And then you’d find a cheap brand of 9v that actually had a stack of nonstandard square cells inside it instead… Bastards.
Certain lantern batteries are filled with AAs as well
I’ve got one that takes AA’s OR 18650’s. Its pretty sweet.
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 to get hold of them.
When Dan’s Data reviewed these, he said something like “even if you use this in space, you are still no further away from a shop that sells replacements than you would be at home”
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
I should say it was years ago I first saw this picture. I haven’t disassembled 50 batteries in the last 2 minutes
How many batteries can you disassemble in 2 minutes? I’m starting the timer… NOW! Go!
Some have stacked flat cells IIRC.