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  • More Alkaline Battery Corrosion

    The X10 RF Remote Control in the kitchen stopped working, which could mean only one thing: a set of dead AAA cells.

    A negative terminal in the battery compartment showed the expected corrosion:

    X10 Remote battery terminals
    X10 Remote battery terminals

    The corrosion evidently pushed the cell away from the terminal just enough to starve the remote.

    The cells, on the other paw, looked just fine:

    Battery negative terminals
    Battery negative terminals

    They’d been in there a year, sported a date code that’s still a few years in the future, and had a 1.3 V loaded output. Looks like that little bit of corrosion gave me enough of a heads-up to get the cells out before they rotted.