Thread: Who Makes the Best Batteries?

So with Christmas rounding the bend and time to buy the kids, toys that eat batteries, thought I would relate an interesting experience.

We have a storage unit where my bride stores stuff that she sells at an antique mall, along with some of our junk.

On the way down, I stopped at the dollar store and pick up a 4 pack of AA, Panasonic batteries for my portable radio, I keep and listen to talk radio. I figured if they lasted the day, I would be happy, for a dollar.

The station I listen to is on the fringe of reception and I have to adjust, to keep the reception tuned in. After a full day, about 5 hours of sorting and packing, I left the unit and the radio was off.

A couple weeks later, I get a call from the folks that live onsite and maintain the facility. They said for weeks, they had heard talking coming from one of the units, as they made their clean up rounds, when they got closer to the talking to pinpoint the sound, the talking stopped.

Finally, they pinpointed it to my unit, and thought someone might be inside, but there was a secure padlock, on the roll up door.

So, I went down and sure enough the radio was still on and working. Apparently the signal had drifted, when I was locking up and I thought I had turned it off. Those cheap batteries lasted all day 5 hours and off and on, as the signal drifted, for over 2 weeks, one dollar batteries.

Recently, on a web site and saw a comparison of Duracell and name brand batteries vs Costco, Kirkland brand, saying they were just as good and,1/3 the cost.

So, moral of the story, buy the dollar store batteries or at least the Kirkland batteries, probably made by the same high dollar battery folks.

Here is one of those comparison post. Clark Howards ” Who makes the best AA Batteries”.