tljx wrote:I don't suppose there's any way to order 60 AA and 60 AAA is there?

Yes ... Woot give you the option at checkout.

I bought another Japanese brand called Yoshita (appropropriate name). These were Super Heavy Duty. I bought 18 count for 99 cents (not through Woot!). The batteries were extremely soft and pliable. They had a very short life. Many leaked and were unusable. Some were DOA. I like Woot but I'd stay away from these. Japanese make great Sushi... but terrible off brand batteries!

scottswan wrote:I should have read the comments /before/ ordering two packs of these. These are wimpy. Well good thing there's a bunch of them...

Don't feel bad. These are actually pretty good if they're really heavy duty. See this post.

http://www.woot.com/Forums/ViewPost.aspx?PostID=4756250

sdc100 wrote:Your figures are not fully accurate and misleading. It really depends on the application. For low drain applications, Heavy Duty (zinc chloride) batteries are competitive with alkaline when you consider the cost. Look at Energizer's own research and the breakdown according to application.

If your remove digital cameras and other portable electronics, electronic toys and portable CD players, what is left that these low quality cell are good for in 2011? Your old bulb flashlight? A tin fire truck from 1962?

has woot not heard of rechargeable batteries?

So, Woot!bot sent me a $10.00 coupon code today. Even if these are "cheap" batteries, getting 60 for a grand total of 99 cents is too good to pass up.

Wait really?
On very rare occasion, maybe one shot in 500 or so, I've caught a falling 9mm shot straight up with my hand.
I can not believe a shot falling on a return path can kill, let alone hurt, anyone.

Of course if it's some kind of heavier round, with pointed front like armor-piercing rounds, pointed exactly downward, then I suppose it could.

Can you please give me a link to credible reports about returning bullets killing people (all the time)?

roadhunter wrote:They also disproved a bullet being fired into the air by a gun falling and killing someone, yet it happens all the time.

mhull57 wrote:I bought another Japanese brand called Yoshita (appropropriate name). These were Super Heavy Duty. I bought 18 count for 99 cents (not through Woot!). The batteries were extremely soft and pliable. They had a very short life. Many leaked and were unusable. Some were DOA. I like Woot but I'd stay away from these. Japanese make great Sushi... but terrible off brand batteries!

That's not always true. Much to my surprise, Panasonic makes their own batteries, and they're even made in the US ("The Panasonic Battery Corporation of America"). I bought 48 of their alkalines for about $7 and they've been great. They've even recharged in my special charger without leaking, which is more than I can say for Rayovacs.

Interestingly, their rechargeable batteries are made by the parent company, Matsushita, are are made in China.

Someone wrote:"Great for wedding and event photographers. I mow through AA batteries with all my strobes."

OCH! MISTLETOE FRENCHING? GROSS!!!!

I tutor new digital camera owners and I cannot tell you how many think they can become "professional wedding photographers" with underpowered consumer gear and no training. This is a classic example. If you want to ruin your own wedding, fine, but these couples trust that you know what you are doing, and this kind of person does not. For example, an old Canon AE-1 and a Vivitar 283 is NOT pro gear. But using film is not a bad idea.

If the RC chopper you buy is not completely crap it will come with LiPo batteries, which, if you do your research and buy your extras wisely, are the most affordable and energy efficient batteries available.

I'm sure my post will get buried but please, don't buy these batteries.

Super Heavy Duty or Heavy Duty batteries are garbage. You get more bang for your buck by buying alkaline.

These would be decent for remote controls but by the time they wear out, the batteries you had in storage will have depleted themselves. Unless you have a bazillion remotes.

http://www.ehow.com/info_7871725_alkaline-vs-heavy-duty-batteries.html

sdc100 wrote:I have never heard of that happening. A falling bullet doesn't have the velocity (thus momentum) to kill or even pierce anyone. It'll probably make a nasty bruise though. Keep in mind that a falling bullet has reversed directions, thus losing all energy imparted by the gun. I have, however, heard of ricocheting bullets killing someone. But not a falling one.

It has been proven and subsequently is one of the many reasons it's illegal to fire any firearm upwards in an urban area. The energy used to propel the projectile, and the velocity imparted, give the bullet enough distance, to gain terminal velocity on it's return path. The average velocity of a falling bullet (small caliber) is ~200 M/s while that bullets velocity would only need to be ~70 M/s to be lethal.

firebirdude wrote:Sorry Woot! You know the type of people we are. We'd sell out our own mother if it meant saving 50 cents.

Don't know if this was in the 7+pages of responses, but ToysRUs has 20-packs of alkaline for BOGO in store@ $6.99. And yes, you can mix sizes and still get the discount.
http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3889645&type=trigger&promoId=11890103

and if you don't have a ToysRUs nearby, free shipping if you purchase over $49.

Just making sure you guys don't miss this. Probably better batteries for a better price from a local retailer. End this whole "heavy duty" talk right there.

Man this deal is horrible! Home Depot just had a pack of 30 AAAs + 30 AAs for $10 - they were name brand alkalines.

Woot.com just hasn't had a deal worth getting excited about in a VERY long time.

radi0j0hn wrote:If your remove digital cameras and other portable electronics, electronic toys and portable CD players, what is left that these low quality cell are good for in 2011? Your old bulb flashlight? A tin fire truck from 1962?

They'd be good enough for clocks and remote controls, which people tend to have multiple of.

poorhungrydoctor wrote:Wait really?
On very rare occasion, maybe one shot in 500 or so, I've caught a falling 9mm shot straight up with my hand.
I can not believe a shot falling on a return path can kill, let alone hurt, anyone.

Of course if it's some kind of heavier round, with pointed front like armor-piercing rounds, pointed exactly downward, then I suppose it could.

Can you please give me a link to credible reports about returning bullets killing people (all the time)?

It also depends on what grain rounds, and type of shot used, yes.

... Where are these numbers coming from? Please post a link to credible study!!!

Like I said I've caught a few bullets before, out in the plains from a falling 9mm, and they can not possibly kill anything.

When you say a falling bullet, do you mean something that's shot at a steep angle? Or straight up so you can catch it yourself?

ressie wrote:It has been proven and subsequently is one of the many reasons it's illegal to fire any firearm upwards in an urban area. The energy used to propel the projectile, and the velocity imparted, give the bullet enough distance, to gain terminal velocity on it's return path. The average velocity of a falling bullet (small caliber) is ~200 M/s while that bullets velocity would only need to be ~70 M/s to be lethal.

Looks like my xbox 360 controllers will be running strong through the holiday

jdchristman wrote:Man this deal is horrible! Home Depot just had a pack of 30 AAAs + 30 AAs for $10 - they were name brand alkalines.

Woot.com just hasn't had a deal worth getting excited about in a VERY long time.

Yep. Saw that one too. Though they weren't a popular name brand, they were better than this.

You guys need to hang out on deals.woot a little more...

Is this enough batteries to power up a flux capacitor?

monkeysflyingthroughtheair wrote:Back at you.

Another tree hugging, self-proclaimed environmentalist with no concept of the real world, manufacturing, retail sales, etc... Apparently, "monkeysflyingthroughtheair" has suffered massive brain damage from hitting his monkey head on the trees while flying through the air.

Based on the insane logic presented by this egotist (Note the tag line "While you sit there and work on obtaining your "quality post" award, I diligently work on the virtually unachievable "quantity post" award. Clearly, I set the bar just a little bit higher."), then the Salvation Army must cause people to be poor, hungry, and homeless.

It is better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open one's mouth (or browser) and remove all doubt.

radi0j0hn wrote:If your remove digital cameras and other portable electronics, electronic toys and portable CD players, what is left that these low quality cell are good for in 2011? Your old bulb flashlight? A tin fire truck from 1962?

I don't understand your question because many newer electronics have the same profiles as older ones, i.e. CD players use batteries similar to Walkman cassette players, and most solid state electronics (i.e. MP4 players) are no different from radios.

Your question is mostly moot, however, since most portable electronics have rechargeable battery packs. These batteries do just fine for remote controls, quartz clocks, as backup batteries for alarm clocks, electronic thermometers, scales, sensors, etc -- basically low drain devices. Look Energizer's own specs, and you'd see that heavy duty batteries stack up well against alkalines for many apps.

And yes, they do fine in LED flashlights since the drain is regulated.

who cares - they're $6! i've got enough Wii batteries to last years now!

poorhungrydoctor wrote:... Where are these numbers coming from? Please post a link to credible study!!!

Like I said I've caught a few bullets before, out in the plains from a falling 9mm, and they can not possibly kill anything.

When you say a falling bullet, do you mean something that's shot at a steep angle? Or straight up so you can catch it yourself?

The numbers are all basic phyics of projectile motion, the amount of velocity a mass needs to penetrate tissue is well known for usage in ballistics gels. A google search and 20 mins of high school physics will yield the answers you ask.

As far as the trajectory, these numbers work better for arc, as the bullet doesn't tumble as much. If shot straight up, the bullet loses much of its velocity due to turbulence and resistance from the round no longer spiraling.

I quit buying disposables along time ago. This is just more Chinese garbage to pollute our nation....

tljx wrote:I don't suppose there's any way to order 60 AA and 60 AAA is there?

There is!!! Just click on the "I want two" and it will allow you to choose which two you want. You can get two of the same or one of each!

Just bought 3 of these for Christmas presents and went to my email only to discover my very first coupon from Woot. Guess I should have checked my email first. *&*&^*%^%^#@#

If you have $70+ LED's like my Fenix, 4Sevens, or Zebralight, then yes.
Good luck trying to find a regulated LED flashlight under 40 bucks, though.

sdc100 wrote:And yes, they do fine in LED flashlights since the drain is regulated.

donman77 wrote:Looks like my xbox 360 controllers will be running strong through the holiday

That's what I thought about when I saw this deal, both Xbox and wii controllers. Although they tend to only last around 10 hours in an Xbox controller, I learned that the hard way on my last set playing Skyrim.

Well this is certainly the equivalent of a large Bag of Coal without the bag

Yay! With a three year old and a husband with a hunger for power, this is a great deal! Great timing for Christmas too!

ressie wrote:It has been proven and subsequently is one of the many reasons it's illegal to fire any firearm upwards in an urban area. The energy used to propel the projectile, and the velocity imparted, give the bullet enough distance, to gain terminal velocity on it's return path. The average velocity of a falling bullet (small caliber) is ~200 M/s while that bullets velocity would only need to be ~70 M/s to be lethal.

Link me to some studies and news reports of this happening "all the time." I'm a news junkie living in NYC and have never heard of this happening. It is illegal to discharge a firearm haphazardly, period, not just upward.

mcogan1966 wrote:So, Woot!bot sent me a $10.00 coupon code today. Even if these are "cheap" batteries, getting 60 for a grand total of 99 cents is too good to pass up.

I did not get a coupon!! Was it in the daily email?

poorhungrydoctor wrote:If you have $70+ LED's like my Fenix, 4Sevens, or Zebralight, then yes.
Good luck trying to find a regulated LED flashlight under 40 bucks, though.

LED's are current driven devices, as such, they require a set current to even activate, the very nature of an LED flashlight is that it is crudely regulated. The more fancier flashlights using Cree LED's are often powered by a PWM circuit, not to extend the battery, but to keep the LED from catastrophic failure (burning out).

todaresq wrote:.10¢ each only including cost...
.18¢ each if buying 1 and including shipping...
.13¢ each if buying 2 and including shipping...
.12¢ each if buying 3 and including shipping...

Any way you buy em... you will be getting a great deal.

Also:

History on Fuji Film... which looks to be the same Fuji as these batteries. Since I don't think it is Fuji Heavy Industries, that owns Subaru....

Don't bet on it, I run into Japanese "Name brands" that are now manufactured in China...

LOL, for a second I thought this was a huge lot of 110mm camera film.

poorhungrydoctor wrote:If you have $70+ LED's like my Fenix, 4Sevens, or Zebralight, then yes.
Good luck trying to find a regulated LED flashlight under 40 bucks, though.

Mine was $24, and yes, I've verified it with our tech guy at work who took apart the head. You can find them all around eBay. Mine uses a CR123 battery but has the option of using 3 AAAs.

SuperNinja wrote:Heavy duty batteries are for people that don't know any better.

"Heavy duty" Batteries are normally "Carbon Pile batteries" or early 1900's tech. Alkaline are much better, and last longer. These would do OK in low current draw devices. These are basically the "Cheapest of the cheap"dollar store batteries.

I jumped in for 3 then I read something about "rechargeables." What are rechargeables and when did they come out with that?

I suppose you could be right, but you could be wrong as well.

Don't mean to be labor the point, but I've gotten what I might call a healthy dose of physics and engineering having gone through MIT mechanical engineering as undergrad, and Berkeley for grad. To be sure, these basic physics equations are important, and we often use them as "napkin" estimation to get a feasible number. But if you have been in the field for any period of time, you know that these napkin calculations must always be backed up by extensive field testing before you start making these very authoritative sounding general claims, as they can get you into a lot of trouble.

You would be surprised to find just how many articles are out there about the most trivial and particular facts or properties in science and engineering, so I'd have figured such study would have existed on a more scholarly journal. Most would chuckle if you started saying things like 20 minute google or high school math and physics. Since you sound somewhat authoritative in the field, I'd have figured you could pull a literature citation or two. I guess I was expecting too much from woot.

ressie wrote:A google search and 20 mins of high school physics will yield the answers you ask.