6 VOLT BATTERY “HACK” RESPONSE - THE INTERWEB IS FULL OF LIES!

I did the same with the same results.

I believe it has something to do with the brand. different companies do it in different ways.

but can we trust you…you are, after all, the internet.

coolio. i want some tose huge batteries…

And apparently “Heavy Duty” is sign code for “Crap” so even if we did pull out 32 AA batteries. They’d be the crappy kind that die out on you right when you reach the boss on your 1990 gameboy.

Well, let’s see. The one in the supposedly “fake” video is a Powercell 6 Volt Lantern Battery. Let me take a guess at what you tried. You tried the cheapest 6 volt you could find OR you simply used a different battery. Get a Powercell like the one in the video and try that out. Maybe we haven’t been duped after all.

I am gonna buy a powercell 6 volt lattern battery today… I’ll find out for sure… As I suspect Shayd may be correct.

I tried it too… but the only cost was the time it took to dismantle a dead lantern bat. Found four big batteries wired in series. The AA batteries in the vid weren’t wired together at all. Before you try this, examine the bottom of the battery, you’ll see a grid pattern, that will give you some idea as to the size of the cells inside.

glad Wal Mart was out of lantern batteries, I was going to get one this weekend.

Haha.. I bet you it was a Duracell (MAYBE Energizer.. But theyre speshul so i doubt it) executive who made the video..

NO, wait! HAD to be Rayovac.. They knew that everyone would get the cheapest ones available, and voila! 400% 6v battery sales this quarter alone!

Tried it with an expired Duracell this weekend. Inside were 4 regular “D” cells and some cardboard. Surpisingly these were retail wrapped “D” cells with best before date and everything. The batteries just fell out and were not wired in at all.

Well we got the email on 10-8-07 ran to Wal-mart on 10-9-07 and my hubby said he had to buy a 6 volt just to see if was try, with having 4 kids and all the electronics they have to have. And of course by amazement with found the same big ass batteries. If someone is brave enough to figure out what brand or if at all has 32 batteries, please do tell!!!

I tried it with both Rayovac and Die Hard 6 Volt lantern batteries only to be disappointed by the typical 4 large battery scheme.

What???? Are you all retarded? Did you really think that battery manufacturers are SOOOOOO stupid? NOPE. I didn’t. Therefore, I didn’t fall for this trick. It’s VERY simple, but I’ll explain for you retards out there. Just go buy the AA batteries. Are you that cheap? If you go though them that fast, buy in bulk.

My 2 cents.

If you use common sense, then you’d realize that the four batteries inside are 1.5 volts each which equals 6 volts. however no manufacturer is going to go the extra expense of installing 32 batteries full of the same metal used to make regular batteries and then only put .187 volts in each battery.

Batteries work because of the laws of chemistry. The basic cell always has 1.5 volts. Batteries don’t work well in parallel (the cell with the highest voltage tries to charge other parallel connected cells and the result is self-discharge). The large number of cells would have to be connected in parallel to come up with 6 volts. Look for sales on AA batteries, you can usually find them for less than $.60 per battery. They last a long time.

Although its technically possible and I would agree that this is probable, there are a few things that prove that this video is fake. First of all when they removed the lid, they edited the transition between prying it open with the screwdriver and showing the batteries. Secondly when they revealed the batteries, they were all in the upward direction so there was no way that any of them could have been wired in series.

Well, I was so curious after all the discussion above and so I bought several different kinds of 6 volt batteries. All but one had long “D” type batteries. The other one had 600 AA batteries. Thats right 600. The cost saving were enormous. I am now running my entire house off of this one 6 volt and its contents.

Addendum: In the six volts with the four “D” type batteries I opened the “D” types and they were each filled with 30 disk batteries like you find in a watch. In other news, I opened my girlfriends vibrator and found 27 “D” cell batteries.

Maybe I can push this hoax a little further and make a video showing how a standard “D” battery really contains 4 AAA batteries.

The video opens with the title “Gagfilms”. Perhaps this explains the batteries.

I bought a german import battery called a REKCUS, inside were 32 AA batteries.
Voila!!!

Rekcus as in sucker backwards! lol

Just wondering if anyone tried to take those 4 big batteries apart to see what is in those????? Maybe that is where the pot of gold is hidden!!!!

I found a kitten inside my 6 volt battery. Maybe you all are just doing it wrong.

If you have an Ikea near you, they sell a 10-pack of AAs for $2.99. It’s a Swedish brand, but they seem to work pretty well.

if you live in Canada and have a Superstore near you, you can buy a box of 40 no name AA’s for about $15. They are yellow. I don’t mean scared and afraid, I mean their actual color. I use them all the time because I am cheap. No, wait, frugal, yes frugal. Also they work quite well.

This was entertaining. Seriously, the batteries that power analog and digital cameras often are in fact made of a stack of thinner hearing-aid type batteries. I actually saw one taken apart by a camera tech for another customer while I was waiting. The shop was out of what the customer needed so the tech cut open another type of battery to get the right one.

Well for those of you who are old enough Barnum was right, “Fools and there money will soon part”. People it is very simple, the math makes no sense, and the law of chemistry says it won’t work.

This was the best spook e-mail I have ever gotten. Not so much the video, but doing the researxh and finding this page!!!

I measured the combined height of 2 AA batteries and then the height of the 6-volt. It just didn’t add up.

I agree with #32. This page made me laugh. Some days you feel like a moron - today I feel more like Einstein.

well its faek but you might also like this other similar scam by energizer

and if you really want to save money on batteries join the powermall and get paid to shop for batteries and all the other stuff you buy online.
go here if you want to do that
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oops forgot the scam site
http://www.newstarget.com/022193.html

Does anyone take the time to note that 32 AA Batteries would equal 48 Volts - Hello. Each AA Battery is 1.5 volts - please people do the math. Also please note “Gagfilms” is the maker of the video. Get it - GAG Films

GAGFILMS? Isn’t that a Michael Moore and Al Gore joint-venture film company?

Well I figured it was too good to be true. I however did not try it. I can tell if you use a lot of disposable camera’s there is a battery in them you can take out. Just be careful not to get shocked! They are in all disposable camera’s and if you think about it you only use the camera for a very short time and then you turn it into the photo lab. That is a lot of wasted batteries! So check it out and keep them. Just don’t get shocked!!!

32 aa batteries = 48 volts? Might want to brush up on your electronic/electrical theory there pal, we’re not counting change here.

4 batteries wired in series = 6V
8 sets of those batteries wired in parallel = 6V still.
Why is that guy saying 48V?

Oh I just figured it out the idiot wired them ALL up in series, (Dummy)

OK, you wastefull earthlings!
Did it ever occur to you that the green way to go is to purchase rechageable Ni-Cad’s
and to be sure to recycle all those other batteries to keep them out of our landfills!

if you guys watch the video, its a 6v lantern battery. go out abd buy that same 6v lantern battery and then see what the results are

I know for a fact it works… Did it myself a few years ago. But don`t think I got that many batteries out of it.