Archive for the ‘Alkaline Batteries’ Category

9V Amazon Basics Alkaline Battery Test

25, Mar 2019

The Amazon Basics alkaline batteries are regular alkaline batteries made for Amazon and sold online through the retailer’s websites. They should normally come pretty fresh as the volumes are high with a big online retailer and no time for batteries to expire, so it is a good idea to go for these as fresher alkaline batteries do manage to perform better. According to the Amazon website the 9V Amazon Basics alkaline batteries are with 3 years shelf life, but looking at the expiration date on the battery we have tested (01-2024) it seems that they are actually 5 and not 3 years. Amazon sells these at 4-pack and 8-pack only, so you cannot purchase just a single battery should you need only one and that can be a bit of a drawback as the rest of the batteries will be sitting in a shelf until you need them.


Our test of the 9V Duracell Industrial Alkaline battery at the standard constant current discharge rate of 0.05A has shown a usable capacity of 481 mAh and that is really good result – one of the top ones so far in our tests. The 1st place however is still taken by IKEA with their 9V Alkalisk alkaline battery that manages to perform slightly better compared to the Amazon Basics battery, but the Amazon one still did really well and it if comes cheaper to your door than the IKEA one it is still a great choice (or the IKEA one is not available).

The performance of the 9V Amazon Basics Alkaline batteries in our tests:

– 481 mAh at 0.05A load

– 3.657 Wh at 0.05A load

9V Duracell Industrial Alkaline Battery Test

21, Mar 2019

The industrial by Duracell batteries are designed and packaged for wholesale and professional trade customers and are providing high quantities of dependable batteries at a cost-effective price according to Duracell. They are supposed to be delivering long-lasting power across a range of professional applications, capable of operating in temperatures from -20°C to 54°C and offer reliable performance, even after seven years of storage. So you should not be expecting the highest performance out of these and you should also be careful when picking up a larger quantity that the batteries are from a fresher batch. The one we received and are going to be testing here is with an expiration date March 2022, so not the freshest one out there if it has a 7 year life, but even with 5 years we still get only 3 more years, so again be careful with that.


Our test of the 9V Duracell Industrial Alkaline battery are at a constant current discharge rate of 0.05A (50 milliamps) and we have managed to get 347 mAh usable capacity in the test. That result puts it around the middle of the results we ave seen so far in our 9V alkaline battery tests, though a fresher battery should be able to get you some more capacity… most likely as the storage conditions are also important and not just the remaining shelf life for an alkaline battery. Our tests of other Industrial alkaline batteries are showing that they are usually around the mid-range of usable capacity compared to other regular alkaline batteries.

The performance of the 9V Duracell Industrial Alkaline batteries in our tests:

– 347 mAh at 0.05A load

– 2.562 Wh at 0.05A load

1.5V AAA Sony Alkaline Blue Battery Tests

13, Mar 2019

We have picked up a pack of fresh 1.5V AAA Sony Alkaline Blue (AM4L-B4D) batteries to test and see how well will they perform. The batteries are produced in 01-2019 and Sony claims that these are longer lasting batteries that can keep power for up to 8 years (expiration date 01-2027) if properly stored at ambient temperature between 18 and 22 degrees Celsius. Of course most people do not care much for their batteries and will probably not try to extend their live, especially for cheaper alkaline batteries like these, so hardly they will be kept under optimal conditions. With alkaline batteries you usually pick a pack and put them right to some use in a device, so just make sure you get a freshly produced cells.


The 1.5V AAA Sony Alkaline Blue batteries do manage to show good results in our tests with capacity above average (closer to the top performers in the AAA alkaline category) and better than what we have got a couple of years ago from Sony Stamina Plus AAA batteries. We are getting high usable capacities for 0.1A, 0.2A and 0.3A constant current loads and going for the higher 0.5A discharge test we see a more significant drop in the usable capacity. The longer 8 year shelf life of the batteries is also a plus, compared to the regular 5 years that most alkaline batteries normally get.

The performance of the 1.5V AAA Sony Alkaline Blue batteries in our tests:

– 910 mAh at 0.1A load
– 784 mAh at 0.2A load
– 609 mAh at 0.3A load
– 324 mAh at 0.5A load

– 1.101 Wh at 0.1A load
– 0.926 Wh at 0.2A load
– 0.692 Wh at 0.3A load
– 0.362 Wh at 0.5A load


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