"batteries are harder to find,"
There are lots of the SR44 size cells available, just the longest lasting high
drain ones are not
so common. It seems to me many more places *than ever* handle SR44 size: from
hardware stores,
supermarkets,electronics outlets,camera stores,surplus stores,gun stores etc
but often they are
generic brand unknown characteristics for use in laser pointers,thermostats and
little toys etc.
If getting Energiser try to get the H version if possible: 357/303H over
357/303.
According to something I read, Sony is one of the largest manufacturers of
silver-oxide cells, but
they must sell to oems, as they are so uncommon retail.
Tim Hughes
--- Jay Drew <dreaded@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Thanks Tim.
> I just ordered 30 Sony SR44W's from microbattery.com. They are listed as high
> drain 180maH on the web page whereas the Energizers were listed as multi-drain
> and the picture shows a 303 blister pack labeled as low drain. At the
> quantity
> I bought, the price ($1.85) was the same for either manufacturer. If I had
> gone
> up to a quantity of 50, the energizer became much cheaper ($1.15 vs $1.70).
>
> I'll report back on delivery. Any recommendations of bench testing I could do
> to report back?
>
> Let's see, batteries are harder to find, film is harder to find, processing is
> harder to find - perhaps there is someone whispering in my ear about
> something.
>
> One hopes that in 20 years we are not running around trying to find special
> lithium batteries for the present generation of cameras.
>
> Jay - Still stuck in the 70's
>
> >Worse still there were two different formulations of Energiser 357/303.
> >Look back in archives I posted a bit of a discussion of data sheet
> >differences
> >previously.
> >For technocrats see the details here :
> >http://olympus.dementia.org/Hardware/PDFs/357BatteryData.pdf
> >It includes all the different (and hard to get) data sheets, including the
> >Energiser "357/303" and
> >the "357/303H" which are different!
> >
> >Tim Hughes
>
>
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