Customer Reviews for Duracell - MN2400B20Z Power Boost CopperTop Alkaline AAA Batteries (20/Pack)
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duracell batteries have cost me alot of money
on October 3, 2018
Posted by: tony is my name
from ca.
I have a dozen items from flashlights to walkie-talkies' the past couple of years they have corroded and damaged quality items that has cost me a lot of money !!!!
We've been having problems with duracell batteries in our electronic equipment. When the battery gets below 60%, there seems to be a drop in it's voltage that essentially makes it useless in sensitive electronics. For example, our infared trail cameras are unable to charge the photoeye, so they no longer take any nighttime photos, even though the battery still has 50% left on it; at that point, the cameras only work in the daylight hours. The same happened with our driveway alarms, they no longer function when the battery gets down to 50%. We have always bought duracell. Now, I see no point in buying a battery that is only fully functional in a simple flashlight. This seems to be a newer problem, we never had this happen until this year.
What is going on with your Batteries? Been buying them for years with NO issues, now (my AAA) they are leaking! Not one or two, but 15 to 20+ in the last 6 to 9 months. Leaking in the package and also in the product. Until it is fixed I can not recommend or buy your batteries anymore. So far you batteries have not damaged anything.
After less than 5 years, the AAA coppertops I purchased, leaked a white crystaline substance in their package. It was a package of 20 from which 4 cells had been removed. It's hard to tell exactly how many of the 16 batteries still in the package had leaked, but the crystals were everywhere in the package. The package was kept in a catch-all drawer in my kitchen. No extremes of temperature there.
These batteries that are advertised as being good for a long time end up leaking into everything. I have had to check all my equipment to see what ones have been ruined by these batteries.
Beware, they leak. But to be fair, Energizer batteries also leak. So do the Kirkland Signature batteries from Costco. I go through a lot of batteries in kids' toys and also bicycle lights. I always buy batteries in bulk from Costco, and sometimes they leak while they are in the original package.