What device even uses this??
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But.. does the mythical A battery exist?
Every battery is a battery.
Most "batteries" are in fact cells.
This is why humans make good batteries.
Humans make terrible batteries, you leave one in a box for 6 months, you come back to a soggy, very stinky box.
Humans are much better as low power space heaters. As long as they have fuel, they’ll maintain a known temperature.
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Is a battery with one cell still a battery? Is an empty library still a library? Is an empty breadbox still a breadbox?
A battery has many faces. A battery has no name.
It would appear ~~so~~ not.
An A battery is usually just called a 17500. They were used in laptop batteries and such but are now used in hobbies more. Mostly for flashlights, vapes, or Lightsaber replicas.
Right - so that is a photo of an AA battery and a drawing of an A battery.
So if I take a photo of a gorilla and draw Sasquatch next to it I have proof of Sasquatch! This is good info to me.
BRB
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battery_sizes#Cylindrical_batteries
My mistake!
I think you were right, it does exist, but Wikipedia doesn't have a picture of one they can legally use. For example I found this:
https://www.batteryequivalents.com/a-size-battery-equivalents-and-replacements.html
Honestly it feels like "1/2AA Battery" should just be an "A battery"
Ah - so I need to put the drawing on Wikipedia. Noted!
Anything else that’s needed? Quickly please as I’ve already called NYT and CNN
You could read the text next to it. They have an official specification, and they're occasionally used as cells in larger battery packs, but they never got adopted in consumer products, so you can't just buy an off the shelf A battery. Nobody has bothered to get a picture of one, because nobody actually cares that much.
Can someone fix this dire state of knowledge?
Thanks - I’m adding some text now next to the drawing about occasional sightings in Canada, but as they don’t care about capturing it nobody has a picture of it. Hence validating my drawing as the only proof.
No public image at least.
So does the B battery
There’s even C batteries, they were known as baby batteries when I grew up, and quite a few ghetto blasters used them
Funny. I have 3rd-party scripts disabled and it spawns endless search fields.
That's preposterous