Chips embedded in your batteries?

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No joke - I actually overheard a Y2K "preparer" telling another guy at Sam's Club - "No, don't buy the batteries with the built in tester feature - they contain embedded processors that will short out and maybe make the battery explode when the date rolls over - yeah we had some that were programmed wrong and the kid's light saber almost caught on fire - stay away from those batteries!"

I was going to say something but thought better of it and just chuckled all the way home. This guy's friend was so wide eyed you could just tell that he had just been awakened to the "crisis at hand".

Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk

Yours in COBOL... Dino!

-- (COBOL_Dinosaur@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999

Answers

Oooooh, another ominous development.

I hope you got an audio sample of the conversation. THEY (The NWO, the "Guhvmint", & Shills from Outer Space) are sure to keep a tight cover on this kind of disaster waiting to happen.

-- (doomers@suck.com), July 21, 1999.


"I was going to say something........

What, can only say something in Cyberspace??

Can't talk Y2K in "real life"??

-- Lisa (lisa@work.now), July 21, 1999.


Lisa,

When someone has just gotten a dose of Y2k info and they have that glazed dazed look it doesn't help to say more at that point. Best to just let it sink in. Wish we could get some verification on this story. So far its an unsubstantiated urban legend.

No insult meant Dino. I would just like to find out if in fact those batteries DO have chips in them. If so then this is NOT trivial info. Thousands of people will be trusting their lives to those batteries. If there is even the possibility those aren't going to survive roll-over then people need to know.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), July 21, 1999.


Now Lisa, you should know that Dino is not exactly Mr. Helpful. When did he ever post anything useful? He prefers to laugh at people --

http://www.InsideTheWeb.com/messageboard/mbs.cgi?acct=mb237006&MyNum=9 27824732&P=Yes&TL=927772041

Re: Y2K as Religion - Comets and Koolaid

Thursday, 27-May-1999 13:05:32

206.146.129.33 writes:

This thread is essentially correct - if I am reading it right. The DOOM crowd has not only gotten millitant over the coming "Armageddon", but they are literally PREACHING it.

I am wondering if many of these folks:

A) Missed the comet when it came by a few years ago.

B) Were too chicken to drink the koolaid?

Now don't get me wrong here. I am not a polly, or a doomer - I am probably on the polly-side of the middle of the road. Much of the bandwidth of the Y2K subject in general is taken up with fanatics on either side! Where the heck is the common sense in people?????

Yours in COBOL... Dino!

COBOL Dinosaur

Like he says, he's not a polly or a doomer -- he's just an asshole.

-- OutingsR (us@here.yar), July 21, 1999.


Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

The problem with the light-saber was the toy itself - not the batteries! The battery tester that is now part of the bettery used to be part of the "blister-pack" that the batteries come in. Just a resistor with a current-sensitive material. No chips.

What really concerns me is letting the new GI think that batteries have chips. When he learns better (from the first conscious person he next meets), he might think the whole Y2K think is a bunch of bunk.

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), July 21, 1999.



...my browser needs a spelling checker...

-- Anonymous99 (Anonymous99@Anonymous99.xxx), July 21, 1999.

Thanks Anonymous,

Story seemed fishy to me. What a jerk.

-- R (riversoma@aol.com), July 21, 1999.


I'm no expert, but the batteries probably have a chemical strip that when pressed to make connection, it glows and rises (like a thermometer) according to voltage.

-- dw (y2k@outhere.com), July 21, 1999.

Not current sensitive A99, heat sensitive. The resistor gets hot and the liquid crystal on the strip responds.

-- Paul Davis (davisp1953@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.

I'm no expert, but the batteries probably have a chemical strip that when pressed to make connection, it glows and rises (like a thermometer) according to voltage. There are *NO* digital chips with transistors, circuts, etc. in the battery. And *NO* it will not explode or melt! PS: One should purchase a alkaline/nicad solar charger for long term doomers (cost about $50) to reuse these batteries OR buy $50+ worth of batteries for those who think y2k will be a 2 or 3 on a scale of 1-10.

-- dw (y2k@outhere.com), July 21, 1999.


Batteries with testers do not have nor do they need chips. If they did need chips there would be no reason for them to be date sensitive.

This story is either complete fabrication or the person making the comment should be on the "too stupid to live list".

It's comments like this that trivialize real issues.

-- John Beck (eurisko111@aol.com), July 21, 1999.


Hey, I just reported what I "honestly" overheard. I made nothing more of it other than I thought it was sort of silly (the thought of embedded processors in batteries).

Sam's had a special on the Blue sealed poly 50 gal drums, lamp oil, batteries, generators etc. I was there to buy a battery for my mother's car and to check out tire prices.

I thought I would share the humor of it here. Seems like what I thought was funny is apparently NOT funny here.

I apologize.

Yours in COBOL... Dino!

-- (COBOL_Dinosaur@yahoo.com), July 21, 1999.


DINO You have just administered the "Knee jerk reaction test" to the forum. terribly unfortunately, some of us passed, some of us failed, and some of us opted to wait until the paroxysms of laughter settled down enough for us to be able to type.


Though, it might have been nice to point out the difference between analog and digital to the obviously brain dead doomer. (and, no, I'm still about a 7.5 to a 9.0) Chuck

-- Chuck, a night driver (rienzoo@en.com), July 21, 1999.

Well, better safe than sorry I always say.............

Rather than take any foolish chances, i think I'll put all my batteries in the school bus that is buried in my back yard for the rollover........if they don't explode, I'll take them out on January 1st............

Would a fire safe be strong enough to withstand the blast or do you feel I might need a titanium plated, steel reinforced triple-walled super vault to keep em in. I'd hate for them to explode in the bus and maim or perhaps even kill my hidden stash of pet aardvarks!!

-- Craig (craig@ccinet.ab.ca), July 21, 1999.


That was an odd post, Craig. Schoolbus and aardvarks? Hmmmm. Odd but creative.

Dino, here's a weird coincidence. I was at Sam's this past weekend to buy a battery for our car and I saw the 55 gal. water drums. The display had been depleted; I bought one of the last 4 from what looked to have been a large stacked display. Good price, too; I think it was 22.95 or something like that.

jeannie

-- jhollander (hollander@ij.net), July 21, 1999.



Dino,

Funny in retro, but, you could have helped when it counted. Opinions aside, nothing is helped when you let needy folks you come across remain ignorant of the simple stuff.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), July 22, 1999.


Carlos - et al.

Yes I suppose I could have wedged my way into their conversation (although it was only one-sided), the guy that was doing all the ranting was in the best FogHorn-LegHorn "I-know-everything-there-is- to-know-about-Y2K" schpiel I had ever heard. Now maybe I might have made a difference. Maybe it would have started a fight. I chose to walk away from it and let it be. Maybe you should make a trip to Sam's Club and see if you can make a difference.

Oh yes and the blue barrels were $22 as I recall and they still had a ton of them. Their tire prices were not as good as Tires Plus.

Yours in COBOL... Dino!

-- (COBOL_Dinosaur@yahoo.com), July 22, 1999.


I've know batteries to leak acid....

(Oh yes Ray, If I had time to post this why don't I post a reply to Cory?)

(Thursday-Chemo day)

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), July 22, 1999.


Carlos asks:

Dino,

Funny in retro, but, you could have helped when it counted. Opinions aside, nothing is helped when you let needy folks you come across remain ignorant of the simple stuff.

-- Carlos (riffraff1@cybertime.net), July 22, 1999.

Ummm welllll... isn't that what the "polly's" are on this board trying to do?

-- Cherri (sams@brigadoon.com), July 23, 1999.


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