[Shop-talk] Dry Cell Batteries

[Richard Beels]

If you want a real battery tester, get a ZTS one.  It puts a load on 
the battery and gives a real measure of capacity.

ztsinc.com

I have an mtb-1 that stays in the "battery drawer" and a mini that 
lives in my main camera bag.


At 02-16-2010 at 10:17, Shakespearean monkeys danced on 
nogera2 at att.net's keyboard and said:
>Around my house the universal solution when a electronic devise fails to
>work is " Batteries are dead".  They then go to the draw where I keep a
>supply of batteries and replace the batteries, throwing the old batteries in
>the draw.
>When the devise still fails to work they seek me out saying it is broken. I
>usually respond with something like, 'Did you turn the power switch to ON?'
>Problem solved.
>
>The result of this is I have a draw full of batteries that may or may not be
>used up.
>I have a multi meter and can check them for voltage but can I assume that if
>the voltage is 1.5 that the battery has a lot of life left in it?   Also at
>what point would you say a battery is borderline and toss it?


Cheers!