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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Right - so that is a photo of an AA battery and a drawing of an A battery.

So if I take a photo of a gorilla and draw Sasquatch next to it I have proof of Sasquatch! This is good info to me.

BRB

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

An AA battery next to a dimensioned 2D drawing of an A battery (7mm grid).

(This is an placeholder image for A battery section of en:List_of_battery_sizes. To be replaced with an actual example as soon as one comes along.)

Date 19 June 2011

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think you were right, it does exist, but Wikipedia doesn't have a picture of one they can legally use. For example I found this:

https://www.batteryequivalents.com/a-size-battery-equivalents-and-replacements.html

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Honestly it feels like "1/2AA Battery" should just be an "A battery"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Ah - so I need to put the drawing on Wikipedia. Noted!

Anything else that’s needed? Quickly please as I’ve already called NYT and CNN

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (3 children)

You could read the text next to it. They have an official specification, and they're occasionally used as cells in larger battery packs, but they never got adopted in consumer products, so you can't just buy an off the shelf A battery. Nobody has bothered to get a picture of one, because nobody actually cares that much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Can someone fix this dire state of knowledge?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks - I’m adding some text now next to the drawing about occasional sightings in Canada, but as they don’t care about capturing it nobody has a picture of it. Hence validating my drawing as the only proof.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

No public image at least.