Had a surprising experience recently. I helped someone I know replace the batteries in something, and they told me that they always had difficulty knowing how to put them in correctly.
Probably not uncommonly, I guess, I've installed my share of AA/AAA batteries over the years, and I can see where they were coming from--there isn't always a label, and it was a little confusing my first few times. So I decided there must be a pattern, some other way to tell which way the ends should point. After a little thought, I realized that the flat bottom end is almost always against the spring.
I've been using that trick so long, I thought it was common knowledge, but maybe that isn't the case after all.
So, that leads to my question below.
(Oh, and as a PSA, I'll say it again for anyone it might help: the flat bottom of the battery almost always goes against the spring. There might be the really odd exception (Trust the label if there is one.), but that's the way batteries go 99% of the time.)
Probably not uncommonly, I guess, I've installed my share of AA/AAA batteries over the years, and I can see where they were coming from--there isn't always a label, and it was a little confusing my first few times. So I decided there must be a pattern, some other way to tell which way the ends should point. After a little thought, I realized that the flat bottom end is almost always against the spring.
I've been using that trick so long, I thought it was common knowledge, but maybe that isn't the case after all.
So, that leads to my question below.
(Oh, and as a PSA, I'll say it again for anyone it might help: the flat bottom of the battery almost always goes against the spring. There might be the really odd exception (Trust the label if there is one.), but that's the way batteries go 99% of the time.)