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Thread Author: Ambo	Replies: 67

New Fri 6 Nov 20 10:22   Correct batteries - Ambo

My heating thermostat is a Siemens RDH10RF and uses two AA batteries. The manual specifies alkaline but I prefer Energizer Ultimate Lithium for such fit-and-almost- forget applications on account of their very long life. Is there anything against them? Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 6 Nov 20 10:30   Correct batteries - PeterS

I think, but might be completely wrong, that alkaline batteries cope better than lithium in constant but very low drain useage situations, which I assume a thermostat is. At a practical level whether the difference is noticeable is another matter, and if lithium is what you’ve got then that’s what I’d use :) Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 6 Nov 20 11:12   Correct batteries - Bromptonaut

The usual reason to specify alkaline is to take NiCd or NiMh rechargeables out of contention as they run at lower voltages; 1.2 v 1.5. If lithium are 1.5v then I cannot see why there would be an issue. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Fri 6 Nov 20 13:05   Correct batteries - smokie

On a tangent I read somewhere this week that batteries can take up to a million YEARS to degrade in landfill. Please use the special disposal points in many stores etc where poss. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 6 Nov 20 14:17   Correct batteries - Kevin

>On a tangent I read somewhere this week that batteries can take up to a million YEARS >to degrade in landfill. I left 4 AA batteries in an old Sunpak flash unit that I used off-camera. They degraded in less than a million minutes. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 6 Nov 20 16:38   Correct batteries - R.P.

The Dutch are doing interesting things with landfill mining, alsorts of re-usable stuff being dug out Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 6 Nov 20 16:46   Correct batteries - henry k

>> The Dutch are doing interesting things with landfill mining, alsorts of re-usable stuff being dug out >> We just let the Thames and other sites erode old waste tips. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 7 Nov 20 10:26   Correct batteries - Ambo

>>Please use the special disposal points in many stores etc where poss. Waitrose delivery drivers will collect old batteries. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Sat 7 Nov 20 12:11   Correct batteries - Clk Sec

>> Waitrose delivery drivers will collect old batteries. That's useful to know. I've lost count of the number of times I've taken a pocket full of batteries to Waitrose, only to bring them back home agsin. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 7 Nov 20 13:17   Correct batteries - R.P.

Waitrose delivery drivers will collect old batteries. Do they charge ? Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Sat 7 Nov 20 13:37   Correct batteries - Zero

Ambo seemed positive they don't. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 7 Nov 20 14:00   Correct batteries - Falkirk Bairn

Any shop selling batteries is obliged to take back duds. Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Sat 7 Nov 20 14:08   Correct batteries - Duncan

>> Waitrose delivery drivers will collect old batteries. >> >> Do they charge ? >> >> They don't need to charge any more than they do. Waitrose are the dearest supermarket. More than 50% dearer than Aldi. Quote. The cheapest supermarket in September was Aldi, with a trolley of 70 items costing £60.01 on average. This was the third month in a row that Aldi has won the battle to be named cheapest grocer. Waitrose – which parted ways with Ocado at the beginning of September and now only sells via its own website – was the most expensive supermarket, with our trolley of goods reaching £98.53. End quote Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 7 Nov 20 14:24   Correct batteries - Clk Sec

>> Do they charge ? Not currently. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 7 Nov 20 14:59   Correct batteries - tyrednemotional

...people are just Ever Ready with the punchline, aren't they. You should all be put in a cell for jokes like that. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 7 Nov 20 15:13   Correct batteries - Clk Sec

Watt!!! Reply to this message | Report message

New Sat 7 Nov 20 19:24   Correct batteries - bathtub tom

Making batteries ohmless. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 8 Nov 20 03:14   Correct batteries - VxFan

>> Waitrose delivery drivers will collect old batteries. We can leave ours out in a separate bag next to the recycling bin and the council will take them away. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 8 Nov 20 06:52   Correct batteries - Duncan

Lidl take them. Good, low priced food. The Middle of Lidl is worth a wander. Stuff you hadn't, until then, realised you needed. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 8 Nov 20 07:21   Correct batteries - Zero

>> Lidl take them. >> >> Good, low priced food. >> >> The Middle of Lidl is worth a wander. Stuff you hadn't, until then, realised you >> needed. Have you been to my local Lidl yet Dunc? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 8 Nov 20 08:19   Correct batteries - Duncan

>> >> Have you been to my local Lidl yet Dunc? >> Weybridge, or Addlestone? But no anyway. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 8 Nov 20 09:14   Correct batteries - Zero

Addlestone? Blimey that put that up fast, wasnt there yesterday. The Weybridge (Brooklands) one. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 8 Nov 20 11:56   Correct batteries - Duncan

It's my age. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 8 Nov 20 07:57   Correct batteries - Bromptonaut

>> We can leave ours out in a separate bag next to the recycling bin and >> the council will take them away. Same here along with small appliances etc. Reply to this message | Report message

New Fri 6 Nov 20 17:20   Correct batteries - Zero

>> I think, but might be completely wrong, that alkaline batteries cope better than lithium in >> constant but very low drain useage situations, which I assume a thermostat is. Correct, plus the base voltage is higher, if the makers of the device go out of their way to specify a certain battery they do it for a reason. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 8 Nov 20 15:11   Correct batteries - Stuartli

I thumped one of my neighbours the other day and was charged with assault and battery. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 02:23   Correct batteries - VxFan

Lucky you weren't thrown in a cell. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 14:25   Correct batteries - tyrednemotional

>> Lucky you weren't thrown in a cell. >> ....don't think he could endure a cell.... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 14:03   Correct batteries - hawkeye

Is he still alive or was it terminal? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 14:09   Correct batteries - Runfer D'Hills

Shocking... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 14:52   Correct batteries - Zero

Poor lad had a nightmare - dreamt his clothes had been stolen and had to go around nicad Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 15:11   Correct batteries - Bromptonaut

>> Poor lad had a nightmare - dreamt his clothes had been stolen and had to >> go around nicad And everyone was laughing at him and shouting his nimh Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 15:24   Correct batteries - Runfer D'Hills

Negative sort of thing to happen in your own ohm... Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 15:39   Correct batteries - Aretas

My ohm is full of volts. My solder friend keep his battery there. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 15:43   Correct batteries - Runfer D'Hills

Eddie's son? Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 15:47   Correct batteries - tyrednemotional

...needs more than a battery to run a lighthouse....! Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 16:42   Correct batteries - Runfer D'Hills

That reads like a proverb. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 18:29   Correct batteries - tyrednemotional

>> That reads like a proverb. >> ...needs more than a battery to run a lighthouse, Grasshopper! Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 19:10   Correct batteries - CGNorwich

Lighthouses have surprisingly small power requirements, a 250 watt halogen bulb is commonly used. Back up is normally by generator or a battery so I’m afraid the proverb doesn’t really work. Sorry:-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 19:25   Correct batteries - tyrednemotional

...AIUI, the Eddystone Light (which is where my lateral move took us rather than Mornington Crescent), is essentially solar powered. This certainly implies a massive battery bank for storage (given that the light is required at night :-) ) but doesn't imply that someone rows out every day to change a Duracell. So, it takes more than a battery, Grasshopper. ;-) Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 19:34   Correct batteries - Zero

And the compressor/pressure tank fog horn has been replaced by an electronic one. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 19:42   Correct batteries - Runfer D'Hills

Childhood memories of foghorns from the Firth of Forth, and the sound of fighter jets on early morning sorties from Turnhouse. You could tell the weather by those sounds without looking out of the window. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 19:49   Correct batteries - Zero

>> Childhood memories of foghorns Ditto ships horns in the london docks. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 19:59   Correct batteries - Runfer D'Hills

Running with my dog on Cramond beach, barefoot on a mixture of sand and snow. Jeez, what a long time ago ! Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 21:19   Correct batteries - Bromptonaut

>> >> Childhood memories of foghorns >> >> Ditto ships horns in the london docks. Remember the Needles Lighthouse foghorn from various childhood holidays at Freshwater Bay. Last I recall was at Strumble whilst in a nearby Youth Hostel c1983. There's still all the kit and the horn at Eliean Glas on the Isle of Scalpay but I don't think it's actually used any more. Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 21:43   Correct batteries - CGNorwich

I like lighthouses. I wonder how long they will persist in these days of satellite navigation and radar . I guess they are still a necessary back up. They have fascination histories. for example lighthouse always had three keepers. Well they did after the incident at the Smalls Lighthouse in Wales in 1801 ....... worth looking it up if you don't know the story, Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 9 Nov 20 23:58   Correct batteries - smokie

I remember in one of my last summers at school staying in a caravan which turned out to be almost next to St Catherine's lighthouse on the IoW. It got a mention in the BBC a week or so back as being the last lighthouse to change to LED lights. Well, that's what I remember, but I am probably wrong. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 10 Nov 20 08:17   Correct batteries - Dog

>> a caravan which turned out to be almost next to St Catherine's lighthouse on the IoW. Once upon a time, long long ago, me and the ole woman droved there in a metallic green Capri 1600 GT. Arrived quite L8, fick fog - horn a'blasting, van musta bin pre-war and in an awful st8. I turned round and droved all-the-way back to sowf lunden. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 10 Nov 20 09:09   Correct batteries - smokie

Sounds quite similar! And the fog was there every morning, along with the foghorn!! But as youngsters we put up with it. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 10 Nov 20 09:34   Correct batteries - Clk Sec

An ancestor of mine was a lighthouse keeper at Portland Bill. I have his obituary somewhere. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 10 Nov 20 09:42   Correct batteries - CGNorwich

If before 1911 he should be on this list www.genuki.org.uk/big/Lighthouses/Keepers Reply to this message | Report message       1

New Thu 10 Dec 20 14:03   Correct batteries - Clk Sec

>> If before 1911 he should be on this list Somewhat belated response, but like you we have recently moved house and I have had to root around in the loft to find the relevant papers. So, yes, he is on the list that you kindly mentioned, as is his father. Both were keepers at Portland Bill and various other lighthouses. The lifestyle must have suited him, as he survived into his 90s. Thanks, CGN. Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 10 Nov 20 11:22   Correct batteries - Dog

We did return to the I o W a few times after that. Insular, like Cornwall, which is why I took to it. David Icke lives there apparently :) Last edited by: God on Tue 10 Nov 20 at 11:24 Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 10 Nov 20 10:33   Correct batteries - Bromptonaut

>> I like lighthouses. I wonder how long they will persist in these days of satellite >> navigation and radar . I guess they are still a necessary back up. They have >> fascination histories. for example lighthouse always had three keepers. Well they did after the incident >> at the Smalls Lighthouse in Wales in 1801 That only worked if the rules were followed (or perhaps one was murdered): www.nlb.org.uk/history/flannan-isles/ Reply to this message | Report message

New Tue 10 Nov 20 10:51   Correct batteries - Duncan

>> the Smalls Lighthouse in Wales in 1801 ....... worth looking it up if you >> don't know the story, >> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smalls_Lighthouse Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 09:55   Correct batteries - Ambo

The batteries I have been on about are for a Siemens RDH 10 RF thermostat. I now can't make out how change them. Do any posters have one of these thermostats and can advise please? I can see a little notch bottom of the left side which look as if it might be pressed downwards to release the battery holder but it doesn't yield. I have tried Siemens' help line but can't make out the heavy American accent of the respondent. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 10:33   Correct batteries - sooty123

Have you tried sliding the panel to one side? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 10:49   Correct batteries - Manatee

>>I can see a little notch bottom of the left side which look as if it might be pressed downwards to release the battery holder Have you got the full 12 page "datasheet" I found, or the one page user manual? If it helps, the former refers to a removable battery holder. It doesn't go into any more detail about battery changing save, as you say, specifiying alkaline. This video incidentally shows the battery holder being removed so you can at least see how it comes out. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGELzLhl_fc Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 11:45   Correct batteries - smokie

About 16 seconds into that video when he is inserting the battery holder you can see a tab on the left hand side of the battery container. Earlier in the video he looks like he is flicking it downwards with a thumbnail before sliding it out. There's no indication to me that it is locked in in anyway way. EDIT You can also see the tab in the pic in the 15 page manual at www.logitron.cz/data/user-content/dokumenty/navody/toptermostat/EN/RDH10RF_EN.pdf. Given there is no special instruction on how it's done I think the obvious method is the right method. Last edited by: smokie on Sun 27 Dec 20 at 11:54 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 12:41   Correct batteries - No FM2R

This is not in English, but I don't think it matters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGELzLhl_fc Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 10:27   Correct batteries - legacylad

On my walking trips around the uk coastline im pretty sure I’ve seen lighthouses turned into holiday accommodation, owned by both the Landmark Trust and NT. I do like a sea view...nearest sea view for me is literally one mile away. Morecambe Bay from the top of Giggleswick Scar. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 11:04   Correct batteries - Bromptonaut

Since lighthouses were automated many keeper's cottages have been sold or are let out as holiday accommodation. Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 11:05   Correct batteries - CGNorwich

Take your pick! www.coolstays.com/blog/round-ups/15-of-the-best-lighthouse-stays-uk/19987 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 11:26   Correct batteries - Zero

Castles, Turrets and Towers www.nationaltrust.org.uk/holiday-lists/unique-and-quirky-cottages Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 14:19   Correct batteries - CGNorwich

I often go (used to go) go fora walk in the Blickling Estate past the The Tower. The Dule of Buckingham liked racing so naturally he built himself his own racecourse with an adjacent viewing tower. He had previously had a large lake created to improve the view from the upper floor of his house. It is difficult to conceive how much money and power these people had. Still I guess they did create something for later generations to enjoy. Last edited by: CGNorwich on Sun 27 Dec 20 at 14:20 Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 16:35   Correct batteries - Ambo

Sooty, I see from later posts that the direction is down, and how to open the carrier. It does not yield easily so I will have to get someone else to try. I only have the one-page manual, Manatee. Do you have the URL for the 12-page version please? Reply to this message | Report message

New Sun 27 Dec 20 16:56   Correct batteries - Manatee

>> Manatee. Do you have the URL for >> the 12-page version please? >> assets.new.siemens.com/siemens/assets/api/uuid:3879bda287a62c43a19ecf802bcd384318fd7230/rdh10rf-datasheet.pdf Reply to this message | Report message

New Mon 28 Dec 20 10:20   Correct batteries - Ambo

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