Techi people... what's happened to this Landline phone ?

hollydolly

hollydolly

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Can anyone whose technically minded tell me what's happened to this cordless handset.

It's one of 3 digital dect handsets in my house. One in the hall..one here in my office room.. and this 3 rd one in what was my husband's office room...

I have recently cleared that room out and repurposed it into a bedroom for me... and just unplugged the phone without looking at it closely , and put it aside..for a few days

Today I went to plug it in.. and notice this horrendous looking stuff.. which seems to some kind of hard crusty substance...

The room is not damp. so goodness knows what this is...does anyone know...:unsure:


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The other 2 phones are just fine.. no sign of anything on them...
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Well I'm a little bit peeved I have to say. I opened a brandnew box of triple AAA batteries that I bought from Amazon the first week of October.. and they don't work. I put them into my phone handsets, and nothing.. not a thing.. I put the basic Amazon ones back in that I'd taken out and they worked perfectly well..
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Can't return the batteries because it's been over a month.. so I'm not happy...
 
Trila said:
It's like a car battery....it has to do with the flow of electricity. I admit, I don't actually understand any of it.....just repeating what Dio said when I showed it to him. (he knows this stuff, not me)
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this is the thing, now the other half's gone..he would always have been the one to deal with these things very easily.. but I learn a lot now from you folk.. as well as Youtube.. so i'm blessed
 
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hollydolly said:
Well I'm a little bit peeved I have to say. I opened a brandnew box of triple AAA batteries that I bought from Amazon the first week of October.. and they don't work. I put them into my phone handsets, and nothing.. not a thing.. I put the basic Amazon ones back in that I'd taken out and they worked perfectly well..
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Can't return the batteries because it's been over a month.. so I'm not happy...
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Now you know; it's not a good idea to buy batteries in bulk.

You can find charts online that show the average life-span of various types of batteries, and buy replacements based on those timelines...like about a few weeks or a month before the expected end of your battery's life. Most battery brands have that chart on their website, and they can also be found on independent websites just by googling household battery lifespan, or something similar.
 
Murrmurr said:
Now you know; it's not a good idea to buy batteries in bulk.

You can find charts online that show the average life-span of various types of batteries, and buy replacements based on those timelines...like about a few weeks or a month before the expected end of your battery's life. Most battery brands have that chart on their website, and they can also be found on independent websites just by googling household battery lifespan, or something similar.
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36 isn't bulk for me because I have a lot of things which run on triple AAA batteries.. my motion sensor lights take 3 each and there are 8 lights..
 
hearlady said:
The batteries are for the phone. The charger it sits in is electric. I think you knew that. 😉
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:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

The batteries in all of my Panasonic cordless handsets are (and have to be) rechargeable. If the charger base isn't there to recharge to phone batteries, what earthly purpose could it serve? :rolleyes:

ETA: Confession. As I've aged I've begun to occasionally mistrust my logic a bit so just looked it up. Per their owners manuals, all BT Graphite wireless handsets (1100, 1500, 2100, 2500) require rechargeable AAA NiMH 550mAh batteries. ;)
 
Yeah, battery chemistries matter. Most alkalines are not fit for recharging and most that were have been dropped from the market. Newer phones tend to use a lithium chemistry, but NiMH had some real advantages before smart chargers became cheap enough to integrate into appliances.
 
Tommy said:
:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

The batteries in all of my Panasonic cordless handsets are (and have to be) rechargeable. If the charger base isn't there to recharge to phone batteries, what earthly purpose could it serve? :rolleyes:

ETA: Confession. As I've aged I've begun to occasionally mistrust my logic a bit so just looked it up. Per their owners manuals, all BT Graphite wireless handsets (1100, 1500, 2100, 2500) require rechargeable AAA NiMH 550mAh batteries. ;)
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..and yet they've all had normal batteries in all their lives..which is 20 years from new...and they've never not worked . I don't even have a battery charger
 
Tommy said:
:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

The batteries in all of my Panasonic cordless handsets are (and have to be) rechargeable. If the charger base isn't there to recharge to phone batteries, what earthly purpose could it serve? :rolleyes:

ETA: Confession. As I've aged I've begun to occasionally mistrust my logic a bit so just looked it up. Per their owners manuals, all BT Graphite wireless handsets (1100, 1500, 2100, 2500) require rechargeable AAA NiMH 550mAh batteries. ;)
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I stand corrected. Ours are rechargeable batteries. I checked.
Feeling .......so.......dumb. 🤓
 
hearlady said:
I stand corrected. Ours are rechargeable batteries. I checked.
Feeling .......so.......dumb. 🤓
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well...no need to feel dumb... as you now know they can work on ordinary batteries...:D(y)..in fact mine are running on Amazon basics....so you don't even have to have expensive batteries..much less rechargeable ones...:ROFLMAO:
 
hollydolly said:
well...no need to feel dumb... as you now know they can work on ordinary batteries...:D(y)..in fact mine are running on Amazon basics....so you don't even have to have expensive batteries..much less rechargeable ones...:ROFLMAO:
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Thank you. 😊
 

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