Zenith 17" Space Command color set from 1982

[vortalexfan]

Originally Posted by zeno

J batteries were camera batteries. Just had to look in the right places.
Very good at short high current intermittent use. They lasted years in a remote.
Before changing one try cleaning the old one & the remote.
They would sometimes grow little crystals & go int.

73 Zeno
LFOD !

The funny thing about that remote and the J-Battery that the remote used was that it was a Duracell Battery from the early 1990s and my dad in order to keep the battery "fresh" (when the remote still worked) would remove the battery out of the remote every once in a while and throw it in the freezer for a few days and then put it back in the remote and it would keep working.

Any ideas as to why that would work or if that really did work to keep the battery fresh?

[JohnCT]

Originally Posted by vortalexfan

The funny thing about that remote and the J-Battery that the remote used was that it was a Duracell Battery from the early 1990s and my dad in order to keep the battery "fresh" (when the remote still worked) would remove the battery out of the remote every once in a while and throw it in the freezer for a few days and then put it back in the remote and it would keep working.

Any ideas as to why that would work or if that really did work to keep the battery fresh?

The only way we could know would be to do a test using two bats with the same intermittent load, but my gut feeling is that dad didn't add any more time.

The J cell was pretty good (RCA also used them) for life.

John