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Subject: [OM] Re: SR44s
From: Matt Boland <mattb@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 21:46:20 +1000
Ok, thanks for those pics. I'll get some 357's tommorow.

Moose wrote:
> Matt Boland wrote:
> 
> 
>>Ahhh, I had a look at the silver oxides I have and they are Energizer 
>>EPX76's. On the Energizer site I found 3 references to 357's. One was a 
>>picture of a battery with 357/EPX76 written underneath, the other two 
>>were links to data sheets with "303/357" and plain "357" as the links. 
>>The data sheets for the EPX76 and the 303/357 had relatively bad 
>>discharge curves, while the discharge curve for the plain 357 was flat 
>>as a pancake.
>>
>>The link was
>>
>>http://data.energizer.com/datasheets/frames.htm
>>
> 
> That's where I did my research, but I don't recall a 357/303, just the 
> separate 357 and 303. In any case, you don't want it, as the discharge 
> curve is bad, like the EPX76 - and it has a lower capacity than the 357 
> or 303, very strange junk. Perhas it's some new sort of ceap general 
> purpose, replace anything that size thingie.
> 
> 
>>I'll give the plain 357s a go. Does anybody know if the 303/357s are 
>>marked as such?
>>
> 
> I sure hope so!! The Energizer 357s are marked "High Drain" rather 
> prominently on the package.
> 
> 
>>Just so I don't buy them by accident. Is the marking on 
>>the good 357's packet just "357"?
>>
> 
> Here are pics of the Energizer 357 packaging, with some Sony ones thrown 
> in just 'cause I have them <http://moosemystic.net/Gallery/bat357.JPG>. 
> Note the commonality of 357 and SR44W on the packaging, with the US made 
> ones actually marked 357 on the battery and the Sonys marked SR44W on 
> the battery. I think these are essentially identical specs from 
> different numbering systems.
> 
> Moose
> 
> 
> 
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