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Battery Sizes and Codes

03/05/2010 1:13 PM

Hi All, Can anybody explain how the battery size coding (AA, AAA, C etc.) came to being. Is there any significance for each of those alphabet(s) in the code? Thanks in advance.:)
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Re: Battery size codes

03/05/2010 2:01 PM

Wikipedia is my new best friend!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery_nomenclature

All you seek (and much more) can be found there.

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03/05/2010 2:27 PM

And i thought it was to match the 11 kv steps of power generation.

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03/05/2010 2:35 PM

Hyuk yuk yuk!

Until I read the Wiki link, I was sort of planning to use a battery to break up an old bathtub I am removing from my house! I found some better ideas about that anyway, right here in CR4!

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03/05/2010 6:06 PM

GOT IT TRY THIS LINK

http://www.sizes.com/built/dry_cells.htm
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03/05/2010 2:09 PM

This may be the answer your looking for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_battery_%28vacuum_tubes%29#B_battery

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