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Re: OT: Button Batteries
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lugnet.robotics
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Tue, 3 Jun 2003 17:45:17 GMT
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Bruce Boyes <BBOYES@SYSTRONIXnomorespam.COM>
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At 12:02 PM 6/3/2003 -0400, you wrote:
> Do any of you folks know an inexpensive source for "button batteries" -
> those used in everything from watches to (increasingly) toys. It seems silly
> to spend $9 US on three batteries to replace the ones in my small R2-D2
> action figure, when the toy only cost $4.50 US at Wal*Mart.
>
> Pardon the off-topic-ness, but this tends to be a mailing list whose members
> know *everything.*
You can go to an electronics wholesaler (some will sell to the public) and
order batteries in bulk. We pay about $.50 for bulk name brand OEM alkaline
AA batteries which actually have more mAh than most of the ones you buy
retail - compared to $2.50 in a bubble card at ToysRUs. But we buy 50 or
more at a time. You could also try Digikey and Newark. Maybe RadioShack or
an online battery store.
Same thing applies to buttons.
Bruce
> Thanks.
>
> --Doug Wilcox
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