🔋 Affordable 24 Pack Panasonic Super Heavy Duty C Batteries - Wholesale Discount" Review

These batteries are advertised as 'Heavy Duty' on the front of each 2-pack, but on the back they are only recommended for low drain devices. For everyday household products, they offer their alkaline batteries. So what is it? Super Heavy Duty or just Low Flow? I can confirm they are not as durable as alkaline and I am very disappointed that they are mislabeled. This is tantamount to misleading advertising.

Carbon/Zinc Batteries. Old technique. The lifespan is much, much shorter than today's alkaline batteries - about ten times shorter. The electrolyte is acidic. So if you leave these batteries installed for a long time, they will corrode and leak acid, destroying the device you installed them in. I'm surprised these types of batteries are still being made. You won't save money if you buy these instead of alkaline batteries because the lifespan is very short.

Each year I buy a large pack of C batteries to light our window candles for the holidays. Premium alkaline batteries typically last more than one holiday season, but not a full second holiday. So I switched to cheaper alkaline batteries. Again lasted more than one season. Then I bought these batteries, foolishly not reading the fine print and not seeing that they were carbon zinc batteries. Of course, they were half the price, but they lasted two weeks - about a third of the time that…