From: liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid   
      
   Amanda Ripanykhazov  wrote:   
      
   > On 3/3/25 4:26 PM, Liz Tuddenham wrote:   
   >   
   > >   
   > > That definitely sounds as though they are failing and the fault might   
   > > not have been the battery after all.   
   > >   
   > >   
   > Yes, but it seems to be a gigantic coincidence that they both failed   
   > separately after I inserted new batteries. And one of them didn't   
   > actually die until I put back the hitherto good cell back in!   
      
   That does seem more than a coincidence but I can't come up with any   
   obvious straightforward explanation of what could have caused it.   
      
   I am not familiar with the batteries but is it possible there are two   
   apparently similar types which differ in voltage or polarity and you   
   were supplied with the wrong ones?  I have come across CMOS chips that   
   were labelled wrongly, so could that have happened with the batteries?   
      
   Another possibility was that, when you changed the batteries, you were   
   wearing a combination of artificial fibre clothes that generated large   
   amounts of static electricity - but most modern electronic products are   
   proof against that.   
      
      
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