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We have recently tested 9V Duracell Industrial Alkaline Battery and surprisingly managed to find another one that is at the end of it’s shelf life this month. That was a good opportunity to compare a fresher 9V Duracell Industrial battery with one that is and the end of its expiration date and see what is the change in capacity you can expect to get with the 9V Duracell Industrial batteries compared to a battery that is at around half of its shelf life.
We were quite pleasantly surprised by the result we got, at a little over 300 mAh for a battery that should be considered expired in a couple of days and would normally be discarded and thrown away. This is just less than 15% lower capacity than that of a 3 years fresher 9V Duracell Industrial alkaline battery, so do not be in a hurry to throw away alkaline batteries that are near their end of life if you still have not used them as they may actually have more to offer than what you expect. Of course it is also very important under what conditions they were stored, because if not properly stored they could actually end up completely discharged even before the end of their expiration date!
Duracell – Fresher Industrial – Expiring Industrial
0.05A load – 347 mAh – 303 mAh
0.05A load – 2.562 Wh – 2.191 mAh
We have already tested both the 9V Duracell Alkaline batteries and the 9V Duracell Procell Alkaline batteries and we’ve seen interesting results, we’ve decided to do a direct comparison between the two since there is a common belief that the Duracell Copper Top Alkaline batteries are actually the same as the Duracell Procell Alkaline. If the two types of batteries are exactly the same they should be able to provide very similar useable capacity in our tests, however this is not the case as you will see in a moment. In order to make sure that we are properly comparing the two types of batteries we got them with matching expiration dates just to be sure that there should be no significant difference due to self discharge if they were produced in bigger time difference.
So far our comparisons between Duracell Copper Top and Duracell Procell batteries have shown slight advantage in favor of the Procells for the AA and AAA size, so this time we kind of expected to get similar results, but to our surprise we did not. In fact the standard Copper Top Duracell battery did provide better result and with over 20% higher useable capacity than the Procell this is a significant different. We did check the expiration dates to match and have repeated the test with another 9V Duracell Procell battery just to be sure there was nothing wrong, but we got pretty much the same lower capacity from the Procell. In the end we can say that we were really disappointed from the 9V Duracell Procell batteries, we expected to see more from them, especially considering the fact that around 300 mAh is what a decent 9V Alkaline battery should be able to provide in our test conditions.
Duracell – Copper Top – Procell
0.05A load – 311 mAh – 245 mAh
With these results there is no way to recommend the Procell over the standard Copper Top model when talking about 9V Alkaline batteries from Duracell, though that is not the case with AA and AAA size Duracell batteries where we’ve seen very good performance from both Copper Top and Procell Duracell batteries. In fact when talking about 9V Alkaline batteries we are not going to recommend you to go for a Duracell at all, regardless if Copper Top or Procell as we have already tested other brands that are capable of giving you close to 50% more capacity than what Duracell does… and at a price that can be lower than that of Duracell!
9V Duracell Alkaline Battery Tests
30, Aug 2013
The 9V Duracell Alkaline batteries we test here are rated with up to 5 years shelf life and are marked for use up to 03-2017. Duracell’s website does not have detailed specifications about these batteries, so we have to check them out by testing the actual capacity we can get out of these. And since we are using the standard Duracell Copper Top Alkaline batteries as our reference to judge and compare to other batteries the result we get here is very important for our further tests.
To test the capacity that the 9V Duracell alkaline batteries can provide we are using a constant current discharge test with 0.05A load (50 miliampers) due to the fact that the total capacity of these batteries is not that high and they are not intended for use in situations where high current loads can be expected. The 9V Duracell Alkaline battery we have tested here managed to provide 311 mAh capacity before hitting the 6.6V cutoff voltage. We kind of expected the Duracell to perform a bit better than what we’ve got, but such capacity is to be expected from a decent 9V Alkaline battery anyway.
The performance of the 9V Duracell Alkaline Batteries in our tests:
– 311 mAh at 0.05A load
– 2.300 Wh at 0.05A load