where to get mercury battery?

prettypettythieve · 28th January 2008

anyone knows where to get a 5.6v mercury battery (Eveready E164 or equivalent)?
thanks in advance!

LittleWolf · 28th January 2008

Originally Posted by prettypettythieve

anyone knows where to get a 5.6v mercury battery (Eveready E164 or equivalent)?
thanks in advance!

According to an inquiry I made with NEA, mercury batteries are outlawed in Singapore. So there is probably no _legal_ way to get it.

canonG9 · 29th January 2008

mercury is class 8 (corrosive) cargo.. even lithium ion batts are now having problem being imported from overseas

what is the batt used for? first time i've heard of mercury batts..

stubertsg · 29th January 2008

Why mercury? any special reason? I'm just curious!

LittleWolf · 29th January 2008

Originally Posted by stubertsg

Why mercury? any special reason? I'm just curious!

Mercury batteries have good performance, low self-discharge, and most importantly very stable voltage. A lot of older cameras use 1.35V mercury cells for their meters.

5.6V battery sounds like an A-series Canon SLR - rather high voltage as low voltage digital logic was in its infancy back then.

prettypettythieve · 29th January 2008

yeah ive a couple of old rangefinders that require 5.6 mercury battery...

lkkang · 29th January 2008

hi, you may try Unicell International at SimLim Square ( second level ). They should have some of the stuff you are looking for. They manufacture battery cells.

sloth · 29th January 2008

http://www.photoethnography.com/Clas...batteries.html

There are some safe, alkaline or voltage regulated substitutes for the old mercury batteries.

My Canon A-1 uses alkaline PX28 substitutes (6V), no problem

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sloth Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 619	Re: where to get mercury battery? http://www.photoethnography.com/Clas...batteries.html There are some safe, alkaline or voltage regulated substitutes for the old mercury batteries. My Canon A-1 uses alkaline PX28 substitutes (6V), no problem Last edited by sloth; 29th January 2008 at 10:59 PM.