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At an absolute minimum, my policy is never use alkaline batteries at all. Use AA Lithiums. They pretty much never leak.
Remote holders are also cheap and take almost no time to install and move the batteries away from the MPU board.
NVRAM when possible is usually best of course.
Alkalines are unreliable and I suspect the market has been flooded with bad quality fakes (or just bad quality batteries) for years.
Death Sticks
RM
Quoted from gdonovan:Actually I read a great thread a few years ago on another board which was very in depth on the subject. A lot of the current alkaline issues are related to the "arms race" among battery companies trying to get the maximum life out of batteries. Changes in formulations and battery venting has a lot to do with the current problems we see today.
I'd much rather have batteries that last half as long but never vomit corrosive goop all over everything but hey that's me.
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