it’s like a parallel reality
Batterypunk
Submitted 2 months ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to [deleted]
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toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world 2 months ago
solsangraal@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
hope they don’t make it a series
meyotch@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I frequently fix things for people by turning things off and on. Day by day, the madness grows.
Red0ctober@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I mean… You right…
Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Anyone who understands batteries want to tell me if this will eventually explode or something?
kn33@lemmy.world 2 months ago
So, at best it’ll last half as long. At worst, it’ll have intermittent issues from only getting half the current capacity it’s designed for.
chaotic_altruist@lemm.ee 2 months ago
These are wired parallel, so it’s supplying the same voltage as two batteries, but will only last half as long before dying. It wouldn’t turn on at half voltage in series.
Still gonna have mild power problems though cause the battery isn’t seated well and will possibly short out when you move the mouse.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
it’s just a mouse so it’s probably fine
einlander@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Will just die faster.
SGG@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It depends on how the battles are wired.
If the battles are wired in series (think train cars) it increases the voltage of The circuit. Which means if the electronics require the higher voltage this may not work well, if at all.
If the batteries are wired in parallel then this is basically half a fuel tank.
grue@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In this case, we can tell it’s likely parallel because the springs (negative terminals) are on the same side. When the batteries are in series they’re usually placed in the compartment facing alternating directions.
Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Everybody else is wrong this shit could wipe out a town
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
It’ll just act as if it’s on low battery for a while then stop working as if the battery is drained, when the one battery might only be half drained.
ulterno@programming.dev 2 months ago
This.
If it’s in parallel anyway, it doesn’t make a difference, slanting it like that, except maybe, making a worse quality connection, that may disconnect with the cell wiggling.
ShortFuse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
From understanding my old GameBoy that had 4 AA batteries in alternating rotation, that had 6V (1.5V each battery). Chaining positive and negative together increased the voltage.
Since this has them pointing both up, it’s just 1.5V but it’s as if you put a half sized battery.
Basically, the same, just less amperage because of a smaller battery (if compared to 2 of the same).
tl;dr: same, but half capacity.