Re: N cells and 13/44/76/357 cells Message #8 Posted by Karl Schneider on 3 Mar 2010, 1:56 a.m., in response to message #1 by Garth Wilson
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and came across their Gold Peak alkaline N cells:
I once bought a pack of Gold Peak button cells (for Pioneer/Voyager) via eBay, after becoming chagrined with short life in my HP-17B and HP-27S calc's. I later learned in this Forum how to turn off the clock ("coma" mode -- turn off while also pressing upper-right and lower-right keys). Use of an emulator (such as Thomas Okken's Free42) can reduce usage of the IR printer on the HP-42S.
I had no problems with the cheap cells, but did not feel confident entrusting vintage electronics to them.
Energizer silver oxide US-made 13/44/76/357 cells can now be bought in convenient and more-economical three-packs -- just the ticket for for Pioneer and Voyager series models.
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That's considerably less than I've paid at Radio Shack for my HP-41 batteries.
The electronics/photo departments at stores like Target or Fred Meyer (US Northwest) also sell calculator cells. Probably not much cheaper than RS, though.
-- KS
Edited: 3 Mar 2010, 1:58 a.m.
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