Key Battery Life

[Boxtaboy]

Did you replace the batteries with a no name brand? Strange that they go out so quickly. I hadn't changed my key battery in my key for 15 yrs and they were still working fine.

[thom4782]

Always used name brands and my experience was like yours - replaced 1 or 2 batteries over more than 10 years until this stuff started happening

[Pdwight]

Originally Posted by Boxtaboy

Did you replace the batteries with a no name brand? Strange that they go out so quickly. I hadn't changed my key battery in my key for 15 yrs and they were still working fine.

Many years ago I worked in a actual Camera Shop / Photo Lab. We only sold name brand batteries for this reason...some of the cheap imports are not alkaline and are not sealed well and can leak or may be almost bad when you get them. If their seal is not good the battery can develop resistance at the seam and "run itself down"

People use to balk at the price of a Silver batteries opting to go with a cheaper substitute....invariably they would be back in the shop in a few months with a dead camera and sometimes with damage due to leakage.

Ebay batteries are dangerous.....these things just do not cost that much.....buy a new fresh one from Lowes, Walmart, Batteries + etc.

[thom4782]

Thanks everyone. These are Duracell batteries, bought at different stores; use one until it wears out and then I switch to the other key. Next time one dies, I'll measure the voltage and see what I get. BTW: at one store I bought a blister pack of two batteries - one worked and the other seemed dead.