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Kirkland woman describes encounter with Bobcat inside her home – KIRO 7 News Seattle
An elderly Kirkland woman is sharing her story about how a bobcat ended up inside her home in…
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Kirkland woman describes encounter with Bobcat inside her home – KIRO 7 News Seattle
An elderly Kirkland woman is sharing her story about how a bobcat ended up inside her home in…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Wildlife #kirkland #Local #moss_bay #Science #video
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Something I wanted to put out that I've been forgetting. I ran into this problem again today so I remembered.
If you're a #Costco shopper and buy their bulk packs of house-brand ( #Kirkland ) AAA or AA cells/batteries, you may want to check any devices you've got them in.
I found that some I bought a few years ago have a really bad leak failure rate - something like half the AAAs in a pack, and maybe a third of a pack of AAs - all leaked after being used in low-drain devices like remote controls after just a year or two. It's not a case of them leaking after they're discharged or when they get too old - the terminal voltage on them is just fine, and their best-before date is still years from now -- there's just a manufacturing defect.
The AAAs in particular tend to spit out a lot of electrolyte from the negative terminal end, so it gets all over the spring contact and corrodes it. If you leave it long enough, you may find the remote stops working or becomes intermittent even with new batteries in it. You need to clean off the corrosion and possibly put a layer of solder on it to get a good contact again.
The bad AAAs I have are labelled "Best Installed by March 2030" and have what looks like a lot code of "1015673" on them. They're from the era when they had a gold and blue colour scheme, at least in Canada.
Anyway: open up remotes and other long-lived things and see if they're leaking.
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