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Re: LED Street Lights
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2017 Aug 28, 08:19 -0400
From: Fred Hebard
Date: 2017 Aug 28, 08:19 -0400
Ten-fifteen years ago!, Eveready was till making zinc-carbon batteries. They are a bit thinner and longer than alkaline. I don’t know that they still make them.
Fred Hebard
On Aug 26, 2017, at 2:18 PM, Paul Hirose <NoReply_Hirose@fer3.com> wrote:Another problem is batteries. Apparently dry cells in the 1940s were a little smaller in diameter. I had to laboriously strip the jackets from modern batteries to get them to fit.
