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Interesting video. Both results surprised me as many years ago when you opened a lantern battery the guts were the same as ripping open say a D cell. The differing results may be due to 2 different batteries. D cell production is more limited and costs of production of 4 may be more than the costs to produce 32 AA cells so in the low end lantern cells sourced from China there may be AA cells. The amp/hr output will less than a 4 D cell setup so the Duracell lantern battery with the 4 D cells should yield more time. This does reflect my experience using lantern batteries as I have several devices in the house that uses them and I’ve bought both cheap no-name batteries and the Duracells in the past but finally settled on the Duracell as the cost per hour of use was in its favor.
I decided to try this for myself and when I had the battery open there were four “D” cells which unfortunately I have no use for.
Whether you have a need for a 6V lantern battery or 4 D batteries, the casing would make a good pen/pencil holder. As either variety of battery will run the same price, why not buy the lantern battery?
Compound battery packs have been around for years.
For the lantern cells, the D-Cells were the standard for many years, and hobbists have broken them out many times to make multiple sources for applications +/- 1.5V, 3V, 6V, 12V… Battery life and the number of cells is the only consideration.
The standard voltages for the Alkalines are 1.5V per cell. The 1.5V is a function of the chemistry in the cell. So all 6V lantern cells are four in series, with current capacity supplied by more in parallel. The 9V is the same (six 1.5V equivalent cells just built differently).
The NiCd batteries are all 1.2V per cell. All those battery packs for cordless tools and old cell phones are the same thing – eight for 9.6V, ten for 12V, twelve for 14.4V, 15 for 18V etc. If you open them up you find the same series arrangement.
And if you have a near dead NiCd battery pack, you can often swap out the first cell and last cells (some soldering required) and reuse the pack (some glue and tape required). This is because the end cells are the ones that would develop the “charge memory” as they were the ones that took the brunt of the charger current and the device current draw. They restricted current flow as they deteriorated.
I tried this myself and found four 1.5V cells but they were about 50% longer than a D cell. The only use I could find for them was in a 3 cell Mag lite [using a 2 cell (3V) bulb]. They’re lasting noticibly longer. I wonder about this video though since the height of the 6V is not equal to the length of the D cell.
The video is completely true, I can vouch for its accuracy as I have taken one apart before, trying this very thing. I was presented with the four D cell batteries exactly as shown in this video, and found that to make up the height difference, Duracell uses a cardboard spacer in the bottom. Hope this helps.
OMG! the guy’s name is dane boe and his website is called gagfilms!
ppl r idiots
And some poor sucker is going to open up a differently branded battery to end up spilling all the interesting liquids onto himself.
Who will he sue?
While opening up primary alkaline batteries can be messy, there’s no
liquid inside. That’s why they’re properly called DRY CELLS as
opposed to car batteries which are lead/acid and are indeed
VERY wet!
Interesting video. Both results surprised me as many years ago when you opened a lantern battery the guts were the same as ripping open say a D cell. The differing results may be due to 2 different batteries.
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