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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@TechConnectify I'm kinda shocked that so many people used normal batteries in battery hungry devices. I remember as a kid when friends had RC cars and whatever, they'd run out of batteries and then they'd be paper weights until their parents would buy them more batteries. Both my grandpa and dad had several sets of rechargeable AAs, that I used everywhere. When they ran out, there were charged ones waiting. I can't understand this wasn't what everyone did.

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Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@TechConnectify In the modern times with consoles I continued this tradition, except the rechargeable batteries had gotten a lot better. Yet it was pretty common for people in multiplayer games to constantly complain how they ran out of batteries and had to steal them from a remote or something.

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@apzpins @TechConnectify 1) Silence, or at least the noise from the toys with dead batteries goes away until the adult gets around to replacing them. 2) Expense, the rechargeables were quite a bit more initially, and some people just didn’t get into them for that reason.

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