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Battery being cold

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When there is snow covering leaves in woods, the ground can be soft enough to dig even with below freezing air temperatures. Can the 9 volt batteries keep their charge, or do they lose power ? What would you do, rotate warm ones,wrap the control box in something like a scarf??? I hope we are coming to the end of cold weather shortly, but would like to check out some spots along a canal that are now wooded.Once things start to warm, the plants race to see who grows the fastest...
 
Alot of people store their batteries in the fridge. I would be more concerned with the electronics, but even there, the manufacturures have a temp range that you probably arent even close to reaching.
 
I have read posts from our Canadian brothers where they use those chemical hand warmers wrapped around their battery boxes to keep them warm. I was out today in 6 degrees with no problems on my machine or batterys. You should be fine, if it does get well below zero, maybe something is required..luckily not an issue for most of us!
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I was just wondering if low temps would take down batteries...Regarding keeping batteries in the fridge, a survival group news letter had an EE store batteries under various conditions..They found no difference in the function..All the storage conditions kept bulbs lit at the same intensity for the same time. Thanks ,I'll just pop in 6 batteries, and two dummy batteries(conductive dowel spacer) in the battery pack on my Vaquero, and I'll be good to go when its warmer...Don't get old, it's harder to take the cold...
 
Ok,well....I knew that keeping batts in the fridge didnt do anything, I was just saying that I dont think the cold will drain yours.
And, what do you mean pop in fresh ones and two dummies in the Vaq? The V has a 9v, have you done sonme modding?
 
Batteries store better when cold. Cold generally drops the volt value until warmed up. Lots of guys use handwarmer heat packs.
I did go out hunting in 32 degree weather for 4 hours and the alkaline AA's in my Tesoro worked just fine, with out any external heat
packs. Haven't tried 9 volts at 32 degrees, so the results might be different.
 
Don't know about batteries hot and cold but I do know using many units over the years some just take a bit to warm up for max efficiency.....and many manuals advise to wait for a bit before you test the batteries or for accurate battery meter readings on such equpped units....
 
Haven't had my detectors out in really cold weather, but I know that my Pro-pointer goes beserk when the battery is cold.
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