Description
Give your everyday appliances the power they need to keep going with the Kodak Extra Heavy Duty AA Batteries.
Key Features
The Kodak Extra Heavy Duty AA Batteries have a standard 1.5V, making it ideal for items that require long term, small power input like toys, flashlights, clocks, remote controls, smoke detectors, and more.
For added safety, these Kodak AA batteries are cadmium and mercury-free.
including small button batteries of watches or small appliances.
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How much are they normally priced at?
$5 elsewhere
Wow Kodak is still in business?? That's the example everyone always gives of a company that resisted change and became complacent in their product..
Name only.
the camera market kodak were in was eaten by mobile phones , they still due paper for photo printing etc but photos are now printed and not chemically processed and film is close to gone.
fuji was in a similar position.
polaroid similar boat …..
nikon were lucky in that they did more upmarket photo and optical equipment and weren’t reliant on consumables such as film , chemicals and paper.
You'd be surprised to know how big the market for chemically processed photos still is. Printed photos cannot match the quality of a wetlab, generally speaking.
No, they died due to digital cameras, not phones.
Also, chromogenic photo paper sucks, not only has it been shown to age much quicker than pigment printing, but it requires a lot of toxic chemicals and is prone to ferrotyping.
You can still buy Kodak cameras. Not sure if it's just a brand or a separate company
I thought I read recently that Kodak are going to start making 35mm film again
they never stopped!
they're still making 35mm, 120, 4x5 and 8x10 film. hell they're even reviving some of their old stock that was discontinued years ago (ektachrome and TMAX P3200)
I Absolutely love using their film and shoot about 10-20 rolls per year
Is there a leak-proof warranty?
To buy 30 would be $6. Bunnings has 30 Varta Alkaline Made in Germany for $9.92 https://www.bunnings.com.au/varta-aa-alkaline-batteries-30-p…
Even for low-drain devices I am not sure that Heavy Duty batteries are value for money compared to Alkaline.
It’s really not a deal. I’m surprised they even exist and I suspect these kids don’t know what super heavy duty means. I guess I haven’t seen anything other than alkaline for a while and the name is incredibly misleading in 2018.
Agree, given the battery capacity of heavy duty batteries compared to alkaline, these batteries are a waste of resources to produce
I thought that other day went I was getting 64gb card other days that why I did not post it.
What does it mean then?
Any battery with "heavy duty" in its name is a zinc-carbon battery. For most purposes, zinc-carbon batteries are useless. For the few purposes for which they are not useless, alkaline batteries are still better.
@RichardF89:
That’s not conventional terminology that’s just something they have made up on the spot. If you look on the packaging it doesn’t even say that.
you get better current from rechargeable for high drain applications if you can handle the slightly lower voltage compared to alkaline.
but for long term low power use alkaline are cheap.
thing is best by dates, not all brands have them on the packet so you can tell how fresh they are.
carbon zinc also,leak over time ….
Did they pay their gst import on these?
Should Neg- just because its HN
HN wouldn't pay GST regardless, as they would get a GST credit. It's only entities that are not GST registered or individual end users that actually pay GST.
Haha what a brand for American innovation. Kodak is now making batteries. Has this been affected by the stupid country's tariffs
Zinc-carbon batteries (rule of thumb: anything with "heavy duty" in the name) are low-priced for good reason. Their battery life is very limited: several times shorter than alkaline batteries, which generally speaking are much better value. They also have a short shelf life and are much more likely to leak than alkaline batteries.
$2 for a ten pack of zinc-carbon batteries is probably cheaper than average. But I still don't think it is worth getting them. Unless you have a room full of analogue clocks, what are you going to use them for? As was pithily said on The Checkout: "They're good for TV remotes, wall clocks that don't drain a lot of energy and suck for just about everything else." And even for those limited situations where they do the trick, I'd still use alkaline batteries every time, because they are not expensive, will last longer and are more reliable.
21 upvotes and 306 clicks so far. Long live the Harvey Norman Boycott
Kodak has been reduced to selling zinc-carbon batteries. Sad.
Zinc-carbon batteries have about a third of the energy storage of alkaline batteries, have a terrible shelf life, and perform poorly in high-drain devices.
They probably should be banned due to a waste of resources and deceptive marketing.
Last I heard of this dodgy bunch, they were trying to "innovate" by inventing their own crypto currency haha
yep it was so owners of pictures could sell them and be paid with block chain as receipt that you can use the picture ….
they are just running on patents they developed over the years that over time expire …surprised chinese haven’t bought them out just for the brand name like they did with MG cars …
would have thought they enter the camera aftermarket lithium market as they have a brand and distribution network
Every company can have some kind of reason to create a bogus currency. With that in mind even the Venezuela government has their reason.
Obviously the Chinese (or anyone in the world) know better than to buy such a backwards company. These batteries says everything about Kodak today.
I really do not understand how they are still allowed, they are complete rubbish compared to even alkaline batteries (which are themselves crap vs LSD NIMH batteries).
When it comes to products like this, I believe they're just selling their brand now… like Polaroid.
Nah, not HN.
Wouldnt buy these batteries even for a dollar http://www.batteryshowdown.com/graphs/1000mA/Kodak.png
graph doesn't show any comparison to others
Here's zinc compared to other chemistries: http://www.batteryshowdown.com/static/images/curve-200ma-135…
And Kodak compared to other brands: http://www.batteryshowdown.com/static/images/mah_large_200mA…
Not worth it at all
Looks like Varta, Costco and Ikea are the go-tos for alkalines, yay!
zinc + other chemistries are at 200mA, the kodak graph is at 1000mA?
whats the difference between kodak and kodak heavy duty? because heavy duty isn't on the second graph
Goto the main domain, they have lots of info.
Old style of batteries sold by out of touch company.
Hahaha, CZn and HN, two negs.
Sad these batteries are still even being made/sold.
These go straight to landfill. Not even worth the money. Bad for the environment as well.
Huh, no they don't if the consumer chooses to dispose of them properly. See the first comment.
Regardless of the correct way to dispose of them, I would still say the majority likely end up in landfill. Add the fact that heavy duty batteries suck (thus get thrown out much quicker), and that Gerry Harvey is a pain in the arse, I'd say that it's a valid neg.
You must be negging stacks of deals then, because a lot of stuff ends up in landfill that shouldn't.
FU Gerry, not %@#&in' interested. You can shove your "deals" right up your @r$e.
combine with: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/381616 to get 175 packs for $300 or $1.71 per pack or 17.1c per battery.
These things should be banned.
Just a reminder, don't throw batteries out in the general waste, the toxic chemicals and metals can leak when they erode in landfill and contaminate the environment.
Aldi, Officeworks, Ikea and Battery World have drop off points where they take them for free and recycle them.