10yo me realized that other sized batteries that were also 1.5v could be used as well if I had enough tape and aluminum foil, so then all the flashlight D batteries around the house started to go missing as well.
The kid who jury rigged their gameboy to a power adapter is probably an electrical engineer by now.
I had a plug that went with rechargeable batteries or something, and it was great for a while, but then the connector failed and if I moved at all the gameboy would turn off. very frustrating.
I go the other way. When AA/AAA batteries are too weak for high drain devices, I save them for my remote controls. They usually last for months due to the intermittent use and low wattage.
Yeah, nah, boss, you gonna need at least 3 more of those bad boys.
Only one needs to have charge though right? It'll just drain really fast. Or am I misremembering
From my knowledge, it's kinda the opposite - when a device first runs out of battery, it's almost always the case that only one of the batteries is truly dead. So if you find that one dead battery and swap it out, you'll be good again for a surprisingly long while
My parents used to get so mad at me for poaching the batteries from all the remotes.
My mom got so frustrated at how often I needed batteries for my walkman, my Gameboy, my other toys, and my little stereo I won at the library, that she replaced all of our batteries with a bunch of rechargeables she bought in bulk. All my friends were so jealous
Don't do it. Alkalines are all shit now and will leak all over your electronics.
Get some decent NiMH.
NiMH is perfect for an application like this, where the power draw is high but you don't need the batteries to retain charge while in standby for that long, so the high self-discharge rate is irrelevant.
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That takes me back
Wanna know some evil shit?
Knew a kid who had siblings all close in age. Their Parents didn't want for money at all, but still bought only one gameboy to share between the siblings. That's just stupidity on the parents' part, to the point of total lack of self preservation!
IE they introduced something to cause conflict instead of spreading it out and causing peace for everyone.
