I was snaking a 240 volt line up through the attic when I found them. Judging by the dust I'm probably the first person up there in a few years. The phone lines have been upgraded and rewired with all this older stuff disconnected and just left behind and forgotten about.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2025
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With how things usually go in such cases, when you disconnect them half the city phone lines will go down.
Thankfully that would just knock out a few peoples lines around here. (The store is in a little village of around 400 people at best.)
That's what you'd think, but the 911 system for the whole State probably really of those cells
Only one way to find out... I'm going back on Friday to snag the rest of them so if any vital services go down, it might be me.
1.3v after, what, 60-70 years? Amazing.
Ya I was fully expecting it to be stone dead so I was shocked (haha) to find it still had some juice left.
Watt are you going to do with them?
Ohm..not sure, but something will spark my interest eventually.
Could any of your current projects use them?
I can't think of anything to transform them into, and I'm worried I might ruin them if I don't conduct myself properly.
You could store them in your volt.
Are those B cells? I have an old radio that used those.
Not sure what designation they'd have... each one is 6 inches tall and about 2 1/2 inches wide